Bug#419987:
* Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> [070420 10:30]:
> 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?
See bug title.
> Was xmltex
> pulled in by some package which you installed?
I don't remember this.
> 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".
The problem is, that if you have xmltex installed, an upgrade
from tetex to texlive freezes the system. I think this is worth
addressing quickly, since it is very annoying to have to restart the
system. As I understood from Norberts comment, fixing xmltex might take
a while. So, at present, it would be nice if tex-live-bin would conflict
with xmltex, because it is impossible, as far as I can see, to have both
on the system. Later, of course, this conflict should be removed.
Johannes
>
> Regards, Frank
> --
> Dr. Frank Küster
> Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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