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Re: [TeX Policy] On which tl package to depend to get mktexlsr, fmtutil and friends?



Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>> I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve:
>>   - reduce two dependencies to one
>>   - or avoid unnecessary installations of texlive-base-bin, which is
>>     pulled by such dependencies.
>
> I mean the first, and not only because of the number of dependencies.
> Currently, we have one package (tl-base-bin) which provides both pdftex,
> dvips and xdvi on the one hand, and the infrastructure scripts (updmap,
> fmtutil, mktexlsr,...) on the other.  If people depend on tl-base-bin
> because they call updmap (or so), we have less freedom should we want to
> separate these two aspects in two packages in the future.

OK, I see.

> That's a good point.  So we should instead write into policy which
> package will provide the infrastructure scripts.

We can do that, but people can also find it themselves with 'dpkg -S'...

>> Well, what's the big difference with tl-base-bin? Is it too big? Or is
>> it because it's arch:any?..
>
> It was just an idea; currently I don't see a real reason.

OK... let's see what Norbert thinks about that...

-- 
Florent



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