Re: Bug#395270: requires mktexlsr from tetex-bin package
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:16:20AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Julian!
>
> On Don, 26 Okt 2006, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Sorry for ignorant question (no time to explore further, but you'll
> > know the answer or tell me to be quiet :-) - why is there a dependency
> > at all? Is it purely for mktexlsr? mktexlsr is only useful if you
> > have a working kpathsea, so why not just surround the mktexlsr calls
> > with "if command -v mktexlsr" tests?
>
> Yes, it is purely for mktexlsr. I *COULD* factor this out in the sense
> that if a package *ONLY* needs mktexlsr, shield it as you said. And
> those packages which need update-* and fmtutil etc only those depend on
> the respective -bin packages.
>
> But then I would get al those bug reports:
> "I have installed texlive-latex-extra" and I wanted to run my document
> using thie fancy .sty file, but it doesn't find latex ...."
>
> You got the point? It is a real dependency in the sense if you want to
> use this package you have to have a tex engine, somewhere.
OK, then I'm happy.
Julian
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