Re: Debian packages for TeXlive?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> > 1. If TeXlive includes enough of teTeX for all packages depending on
> > teTeX you could make the right (meta-?)packages of TeXlive provide the
> > tetex-* packages and replacing them with TeXlive would be no problem.
>
> Not quite. There are some versioned depends on tetex in the
> archive... I can't remember which they are, but I remember giving up
> on my fake tl6 package because of it.
IIRC dpkg does now handle versioned provides, so this should be solvable.
> >> - not enough dependency information.
>
> > Dependency information for what?
>
> I suspect Sebastian is talking about LaTeX styles which require other
> styles, perhaps. TeXlive breaks things up considerably, and has tons
> of "packages" containing specific style files. I don't think there
> is any dependency info on what they require.
If that's the problem it's a real problem.
cu
Adrian
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