Re: tetex-base: Why does it depend on texinfo?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 10.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>>
>> I would say: A comment is a comment. We can add a "needs texinfo".
>>
> OK, agreed.
Looking at Bug #61990, it seems as if this format was enabled by default
back then. Why should one manually enable this format when he doesn't
want texinfo?
>> Would it help to remove cyrtxinf.ini from tetex-base and add it to the
>> texinfo package?
>>
> It would:
Fine.
[...]
> If we do that, we can simply swap over the entry in fmt.d/00...cnf to
> texinfo, document that in the changlog and we're done. It would have
> the same consequences: texinfo would have to build formats, etc...
> see my previous mail.
I don't quite understand. If you just install texinfo without tetex, it
won't try to do anything with this format. If you additionally install
tetex, still nothing will happen. If you enable the cyrtexinfo format by
changing our or their fmt.d/XX..cnf, the format will be created by
fmtutil.
If texinfo updates its files, the format will not be regenerated,
although it perhaps should be. But that is just how it is now.
Therefore, if we simply drop the dependency,
- nothing will change for users who have yet an installed system
(because texinfo is yet there)
- nothing will change for users who install new and don't need the
format
- new installing users who need the format will have to install texinfo
additionally, and will have to find out this themselves (or, rather,
from our Recommends entry). I don't think this is too hard.
Thus, I suggest moving texinfo from Depends to Recommends anyway, and
asking Josip Rodin about the file swwapping as a separate issue.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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