On 17.10.08 Martin Pitt (martin.pitt@ubuntu.com) wrote: Hi, > texlive-extra-utils currently recommends dvi2tty and dvidvi. IMHO > they should be dropped to Suggests:, since LaTeX defaults and > encourages using PDF now. > I'm not sure if the discussion already ended. IMHO some people still use dvi and have some good reasons to do it. > Especially the former package needs to go, since dvi2tty is > orphaned and not in testing (thus Lenny would have an unresolvable > Recommends:). For that reason I mark the bug as important. > OK, fine. We'll fix that. > Similarly, texlive-base-bin's Recommends: perl-tk seems too strong > to me. I am a fairly regular LaTeX user and have never ever needed > it. > texdoctk needs it, and fails to start if it is not installed. Calling the command on the CLI causes and error message and from a menu it calls xmessage to tell about the missing lib. This was implemented about 2003 and we could lower the dep to recommend. Should we further lower to Suggests? H. -- sigmentation fault
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