Bug#60253: More clearly
From: Christoph
Subject: Bug#60253:
Date: Tue,
> 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.
Even the latest dpkg, if the both relations are set then perhaps
one can not install either packages.
> I agree that it is confusing for a newbe to only get tetex-base if he
> begins with this package.
Hmm, but if so, is there any simple solution?
I guess anyone who wants TeX environment will install at least
tetex-bin and tetex-base. Am I too optimistic?
Regards, 2000.6.20
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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