Bug#423013: tetex-extra: ..over 300MB of uneccessary texlive-lang-* dependencies, require one of them and suggest the rest.
Package: tetex-extra
Version: ..the sid install candidates.
Severity: normal
...on choosing prosper, I find it depends on tetex-extra. So far so good. Then on it gets messier:
it wants over 300MB of completely uneccessary texlive-lang-* dependencies, I don't speak Czech,
Korean etc and cannot weed out the texlive-lang-* I don't use without breaking tetex-extra, so you
should require one of them and suggest the rest to make it work in a reasonable way.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
ii ucf 3.001 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-extra recommends:
pn latex-beamer <none> (no description available)
pn latex-xcolor <none> (no description available)
ii lmodern 1.010x-3 scalable PostScript and OpenType f
pn pgf <none> (no description available)
pn preview-latex-style <none> (no description available)
ii texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 Documentation system for on-line i
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