Bug#100332: tetex-bin: please move xdvi to its own package
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:51:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > We're at least 2-3 months away from tetex being frozen. My suggestion
> > is to remove the dependency on xlibs without splitting the package:
> > basically, anyone trying to use xdvi should be working under X
> > already, so will automatically have xlibs. The only issue might be
> > version skew. I wouldn't like to have xdvi in a package on its own;
> > that would be downright confusing.
>
> This solution is ugly as hell. I'm stricly against risking to break
> anything only to hide the dependencies of xdvi (and oxdvi).
Probably true. But the other possibility has to be thought about
quite carefully too: we don't want people to install tetex-bin only to
find that half the stuff they expect isn't there.
Here's a possibility I've thought of for when the package is split:
tetex-bin is a dummy package depending on tetex-bin-core,
tetex-bin-xdvi, tetex-bin-pdftex, tetex-bin-* etc. Then installing
tetex-bin gets you everything, but you can selectively remove bits of
it. That will probably solve all of the problems. Now why didn't I
think of this before?!
> And where's the big gain? When you install tetex-bin you install more than
> 36 MB of teTeX packages - xlibs has less than 5 MB.
tetex-bin is standard priority, xlibs is optional.
Julian
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