Re: cm-super
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:19:24 +0100
> weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed parts of texlive without a hitch.
>> But was paused by texlive-fonts-extra which
>> contains a dependency on cm-super.
>
> What was the problem? cm-super is available in etch and sid.
Cm-super is very bulky.
>
>> Is this
>> necessary?
>
> It's necessary in the sense that the upstream collection that makes up
> texlive-fonts-extra does contain cm-super. In the Debian package these
> fonts were split out because they are already packaged.
It is great that they are separate but it seems
that they are not installation-independent. Why
is there an installation dependence? I am curious
what fonts in texlive-fonts-extra depend on
cm-super.
Thank you.
eythan
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