Re: Bug#428158: Dependency on texlive is not fine-grained enough

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Well, "texlive" itself does NOT depend on any -lang packages, that is
> texlive-full. texlive itself only depends (for now) on
> texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2007-7)
> texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2007-7)
> texlive-latex-base (>= 2007-7)
>
> so not a lot.

Oh, you're right. I was fooled because when I wanted to install
maxima-emacs, dselect proposed to install *both* tetex-extra and
texlive; the former pulled all the -lang packages, but I didn't pay
enough attention and mistakenly thought it was the latter.

> Still I agree that it is better to have exact dependencies.

Therefore, I'm not closing the bug, though it's less annoying than what
I initially thought.

> Please see my recipe Frank posted on the website (or was it some doc?)
> on how to get the necessary deps, basically call latex/pdftex/whatever
> with -recorder and check for the used files with dlocate.

For Those Who Care, the recipe is at

  http://pkg-tetex.alioth.debian.org/mapping-texlive.html

Thanks for your input, Norbert!

-- 
Florent