Bug#392517: Please make texlive-doc-en a Recommends
Norbert Preining wrote:
> About the splitting, see below. Concerning the bug: You are right. So I
> will change the relation from depends to suggests? or recommends? What
> do you suggest/recommend for now, without splitting!!?!?
IMHO this depends on whether or not the meta package texlive should be
used in dependencies or not. (I was the one who suggested to Ralph to
not use it for sisu-pdf.) If 'texlive' is meant as a package that is
selected by users, then Recommends is fine, since people who want to
actively use TeX probably want to have at least parts of these docs. If
we say it is okay for other packages to depend on 'texlive' instead of
the appropriate 'texlive-*' packages, then I think Suggests would be
better. People you use TeX only via automatic code generaters probably
don't need all this documentation.
> I started collecting infos on these packages, here is what I found and
> what I propose as an idea (I did NOT say that I will implement it ;-)
Looks good in principle, though there are a few items I don't know. For
these Metafont and Metapost docs, I think they could go in the
t-d-e-extra package:
> metafont-for-beginners -- The metafont-for-beginners package.
> 52
> metafp -- Some Experiences in Running METAFONT and MetaPost.
> 204
> metapost-examples -- Example drawings using metapost.
> 156
cheerio
ralf
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