Bug#392517: marked as done (Please make texlive-doc-en a Recommends)
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Package: texlive
Severity: wishlist
The texlive-doc-en package is rather big (~55mb). If you want to install
texlive instead of tetex and with other packages starting to depend on
texlive | tetex-base, you are forced to install the documentation.
It would be great if it was possible to choose if you want to install the
documentation or not (either by using a Suggests or a Recommends).
The same is true for texlive-fonts-recommended and
texlive-latex-recommended. If they are not really "required" for a
working texlive installation, their depedency should probably also
degraded to Recommends:
Cheers,
Michael
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Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu> wrote:
> Package: texlive
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The texlive-doc-en package is rather big (~55mb). If you want to install
> texlive instead of tetex and with other packages starting to depend on
> texlive | tetex-base, you are forced to install the documentation.
> It would be great if it was possible to choose if you want to install the
> documentation or not (either by using a Suggests or a Recommends).
> The same is true for texlive-fonts-recommended and
> texlive-latex-recommended. If they are not really "required" for a
> working texlive installation, their depedency should probably also
> degraded to Recommends:
Package: texlive
Description: TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system.
It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing
of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection
of TeX macros and font libraries.
.
This metapackage provides a decent selection of the TeX Live packages
which should suffice for the most common tasks.
.
The distribution also includes extensive general documentation about
TeX, as well as the documentation accompanying the included software
packages.
In other words: If you don't want the -recommended or -doc-en packages,
just don't install the texlive metapackes. You're free to choose among
the "real" packages, according to their interdependencies. The very
purpose of the texlive meta package is to get the main documentation and
everything that's recommended with one selection in aptitude.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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