Bug#173872: tetex-bin: spurious dependency on perl-tk
severity 173872 wishlist
merge 173872 170382
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From: Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>
Subject: Bug#173872: tetex-bin: spurious dependency on perl-tk
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:58:03 +0100
> New tetex-bin pulled in perl-tk. That package has Installed-Size: 7272.
>
> I use tetex-bin for the sole purpose of building PDF files out of my
> DebianDoc-SGML source files. To put it simply, there's no fucking way in
> hell I somehow suddenly started needing perl-tk for that task.
>
> Please do something about it, because this is just absurd. Using Recommends
> or even better, splitting the package up comes to mind.
dependency on perl-tk is not spurious nor absurd.
New tetex-bin (or more precisely, upstream teTeX)
included texdoctk and this depended on perl-tk.
We recognized that there are such requests; #51869, #78926,
#100332 but basically, we don't split the tetex packages.
cf. #32260 for example:
> we had a tex system like this up to Debian 1.2 containing up to 20
> packages, but because of the complex dependencies it was not really
> working this way. So the decission was, to adopt TeTeX because of its
> good design and stability. If we again try to separate it in small
> pieces I fear we get the same mess as before. So my answer is, rather
> don't do it.
I am considering now that if many users really think texdoctk
not so necessary then only possible solution would be to move
texdoctk supporting stuffs in tetex-extra and make tetex-extra
to depend on perl-tk. (This is not a promise yet ;)
Is this enough for you?
Thanks, 2002-12-24(Tue)
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