Re: Does tetex-extra really depend on all these language packages?
Andreas Tscharner <andy@vis.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hello tex maintainers,
>
> I'm using Sid at home and I wanted to update, but I hesitate due to
> the many dependencies of the new TeX Live, especially tetex-extra that
> depends on so many language packages.
> My native language is german and maybe I'll write someday something in
> english, but I doubt that I will ever need mongolian for example.
>
> So, does tetex-extra really depend on all these language packages?
tetex-extra is an empty transitional package which does nothing than
depend on stuff. It pulls in all languages that were also present in
tetex-extra.
If you don't need them, just deselect tetex-extra (and tetex-bin) and
only choose those texlive packages that you think you need (probably
texlive-latex-{base,recommended} and maybe -extra, as well as
tl-fonts-recommended).
I have added a paragraph on that in tetex-*'s NEWS.Debian.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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