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Bug#60253: More clearly



Atsuhito Kohda writes:
 > 
 > tetex-bin contains basic binaries of teTeX and they need
 > macros, fonts, etc. which should be contained in imaginary/virtual
 > tetex-base package.
 > 

normally you would have do depend as follows, because -base can not do
without -bin and viceversa:

tetex-base depends on tetex-bin
tetex-bin depends on tetex-base

You will find arguments for both, but when I designed the packages,
dpkg could not handle it (and I think it can not handle it yet), so I
had to change one of the depends to a suggest.

I agree that it is confusing for a newbe to only get tetex-base if he
begins with this package.

Christoph



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