Re: More fine-grained control in texlive?

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Fre, 29 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > 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. 
>
> I guess we could argue that providing a Recommends is a strong enough
> relation for doc files?
>
> Frank, what do you think?

I'll ask Markus Kohm in private.  He's the maintainer who has argued
most intensily for not separting his docs from the input files (in
particular because of his own "reportbug" script).

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