Bug#91249: PROPOSED] bring X support policy into line with must/should/may usage
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 04:49:45PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Additionally, I'd like to point out that two packages have already been
> split out of tetex packages to correct this accident, texinfo[1] and
> texi2html, and this hasn't caused any major problems (readjustment of a
> couple of dependencies). So, I propose that xdvi is moved out.
No! Please don't do that. Neither texinfo nor texi2html are
generally thought of as integral parts of a TeX system. But you'll
cause no end of confusion if you remove xdvi from the tetex packages;
it is expected.
What you could do, especially given that xdvi already has a wrapper
around it, is to make tetex-bin Suggest or Recommend the requisite X
packages, and get the wrapper to check for the presence of the
library, and to abort with an error message should it not be present.
Then no-one has to go hunting for xdvi, and the error message will
explain what to do if there's a problem. And given that running xdvi
outside of an X environment is a bit daft anyway, this really
shouldn't be much of an issue.
Julian
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