Re: More fine-grained control in texlive?

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:

>> but I think it *is* a bad idea to not distribute them together.  Instead
>> of installing the doc package, people start googling around and using
>> bad advice or outdated (or too new) documentation.
>
> But if the default metapackages pull in the documentation or if they
> "Recommends:" the documentation, this problem would be solved, wouldn't
> it?

Yes, that would be okay from a packaging point of view.  It's probably
not okay from a licensing point of view. 

Regards, Frank

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