Re: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#402118: closed by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> (Bug#402118: fixed in debiandoc-sgml 1.1.102)
On Di, 24 Jun 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Can you tex people to provide something like: tex-build-essential (or
> > texlive-build-full) which provides all required fonts and language
> > specific features. Then everyone can have easytime.
>
> I'm not sure that we want to take this path, but the wish should be
> documented in the BTS, and properly discussed.
I disagree with the OP. THere is *no*
"all required fonts and language specific features"
What should that mean? Do you want arabic, take texlive-lang-arab?
Do you want chinese, then you need latex-cjk. The authors *have* to
check what they need. And it is really not *soooo* complicated.
Most domcuments are processed with pdftex as basic engine behind (only
plain tex is still normal tex). So running the compiler (latex,
pdflatex, whatever) with
-recorder
and you get a list of included files. Then a simple
awk/dlocate/sort/uniq incantation should do the trick to find the
necessary packages.
No, I will tag this dont-fix, there is no proper fix.
People can simply as a first shot depend on
texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended,
texlive-lang-whatevertheyneed
and that should suffice for most things. Rest is not our obligation,
there is no *default* for that.
For Frank: I don't consider this a bug. I wouldn't have created a bug
for it, it is just useless disturbance.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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