Re: texlive metapackage in dependencies, transitional package
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> I think these issues are somewhat orthogonal. I still think that
> packages that explicitly declare dependencies on texlive-* should check
> which individual packages they need, and not use the texlive
> metapackage. On the other hand, from the analysis above that I didn't
> cite it seems feasible to create a transitional package "tetex-bin" and
> maybe "tetex-extra" from the texlive source package: It's purpose would
> be to minimize the havoc on buildds that we would create by dropping
> tetex suddenly, but it wouldn't be a long-term solution.
It's function would also be to provide an upgrade path for users, of
course...
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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