Re: Packaging around debian
Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> wrote:
> Just thought you would be interested to know this, the problem with
> package managers in Debian is addressed also for perl, python and Java
> (cpan, ezinstall or maven). See mail below, that was on
> ubuntu-devel-discuss maillist.
Thanks
> Of course, such support cannot be used to build policy-compliant
> packages, and so any gem that is packaged and has dependencies will
> require either a patched gem install to handle it, or an alternate
> build system to be put in place.
The "good" thing with TeX is that there's no information on dependencies
except in the code itself. So any missing dependency will only show up
when compiling TeX code, and everything is up to the user from the first
place...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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