Bug#60253: More clearly

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:37:14PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > >  > 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
> > 
> > In that case, what's the point of separating those two packages? You should
> > put them in the same package if the components can't do without each other.
> 
> Different source packages.

How pointless, if I may say so. Let me guess, there's a circular build
dependency, too, right? :)

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