Bug#60253: More clearly

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:58:18PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:53:30PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > I guess anyone who wants TeX environment will install at least 
> > tetex-bin and tetex-base.
> 
> As a side note, it doesn't seem very obvious why does tetex-bin need to
> depend on libpng2[1] and libz1, or why does it have two dependencies on
> tetex-lib[2], or why does it depend on ed. The README.Debian file includes
> the configure command line, but doesn't have any other details.
> 
> [1] this:
>  for i in `dpkg -L tetex-bin | grep /bin/`; do ldd $i 2>/dev/null | grep -q libpng.so && echo $i; done
> basically gives me pdfetex and pdftex, which are a small part of such a
> large package, so the Depends: doesn't seem warranted.

This will be handled when the tetex-bin package is split, I presume.

> [2] one is from tetex-lib's shlibs, the other is manually added?
>  tetex-lib (>= 1.0.6-2)
>  tetex-lib (>= 1.0.6)

I guess.

Depends on 'ed' because it's used in various scripts.  (Read
/usr/sbin/texconfig.)

   Julian

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