Bug#526153: marked as done (texlive-latex-extra: should suggest not recommend texlive-latex-extra-doc)
On 29.04.09 Debian Bug Tracking System (owner@bugs.debian.org) wrote:
> On Mi, 29 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
Hi Norbert,
> > Debian and Ubuntu recommend the -doc package of
> > texlive-latex-extra, but this drags in quite a lot of further
> > packages that I would prefer not to seem them auto-installed.
>
> $ apt-cache show texlive-latex-extra-doc
> ...
> Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 1.18), texlive-common
> (>= 2007)
>
> and no suggests or recommends.
>
> texlive-latex-extra-doc does not pull in *any* package that isn't
> already installed.
>
I guess this bug was another incarnation of "I don't like to have the
-doc package automatically installed, b/c auf Recommends". Our answer
is normally: "Upstream recommands to install the docu, hence we have
recommend these packages. If anybody doesn't like that he should
reconfigure apt to not install recommended packages.".
H.
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