Bug#515051: texlive-pstricks: relax dependency on texlive-pstricks-doc?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 14:36, Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>> the situation as of now is:
>>
>> $ aptitude why texlive-pstricks-doc
>> i texlive-pstricks Recommends texlive-pstricks-doc
>>
>> Since Recommends are installed automatically I'd suggest to
>> downgrade the relation to a Suggest (so we can avoid to download
>> >20Mb package we might not need).
>>
> No sorry, this is functions as designed. We (and upstream) have the
> opinion that the doc is an required part of a TeX installation. If
so a meta packages, dependent to all the needed packages might be an
option. Having documentation (huge as this one) installed by default
might be not what every users want.
Suggests is here for this reason: have a way to communicate to users
of other packages that might enhance package experience while not
installed by default.
> you really don't need the documentation you can use apt to install
> the packages. Eventually you need to set the following option:
>
> APT
> {
> Recommends "false";
> }
>
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
But that will prevent *any* Recommends from being installed, not only
for this package.
Regards,
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