Bug#419987:

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de> wrote:

> * Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [070420 09:20]:
>> Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > Couldn't texlive-base-bin conflict with xmltex?
>> 
>> Of course not, since that would mean that xmltex isn't installable any
>> more - there's no other TeX system in sid.
>
> Citing from the xmltex package:
> "XMLTeX is a non-validating, namespace-aware XML parser written in TeX.
> It allows TeX to directly process XML files."
>
> Usually I process tex files with TeX, not XML files. So I figured I
> don't need xmltex. Did I miss something, like texlive converts every
> tex/latex file into XML and then uses xmltex?

No, why?  What's the problem you are trying to address?  Was xmltex
pulled in by some package which you installed?  Usually, people who
don't want xmltex shouldn't install it, but for those who install it on
purpose, it also needs a working TeX system "underneath".

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)