Recommends: tetex-doc?
Hi,
Why does tetex-base have tetex-doc as "Recommends" instead of "Suggests"?
Naturally the tetex-doc package is recommended for people using tetex
directly, but to most people only using other packages that in turn use
tetex the tetex-doc package is completely useless. There are lots of
packages that depend on (or recommends) tetex-bin which depends on
tetex-base which recommends tetex-doc. This means that all people that use
any of these other packages and a package manager frontend that installs
all recommended packages (e.g. aptitude) will get tetex-doc, too. If the
tetex-doc package would be very small then I wouldn't mind, but it's 40MiB!
I've read the messages starting with
http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2003/debian-tetex-maint-200310/msg00168.html
but the decision seems to have been made based on the wrong assumption that
most people installing tetex would actually use it directly. The reality is
that people install some small utility, such as a2ps, and along with it
they get the behemoth that is tetex, including its docs and whatnot.
--
- Marcus Sundman
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