Re: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable?
HI Rogério!
On Son, 19 Feb 2006, Rogério Brito wrote:
> I was about to install texlive here, but one of the things that got me
> scared was the fact that the documentation packages were all
> dependencies of the package texlive. Is this really intended?
Do I understand correctly that you are scared from
`texlive' depends on `texlive-doc-foobar'
?
Why?
The description of the texlive package states clearly that it tries to
pull in *ALL* packages necessary to get a system which resembles the
full installation of TeX live from the original DVDs.
You don't have to install `texlive',
aptitude install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended
is definitely enough for normal use.
> I had expected it to depend on one of the l10n packages
> (texlive-lang-*), with others being specified as options (i.e., with
> "|").
>
> Is this reasonable to ask?
Again, see the intention behind the `texlive' package. You don't NEED
this package, it is a meta package *only*. Install whatever language you
need together with the relevant packages.
Best wishes
Norbert
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