Bug#593782: texlive-binaries: fmtutil, texconfig, updmap and mktexfmt use tcfmgr shipped in texlive-base
Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 20.08.10 Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jeanbaptiste.lallement@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Package: texlive-binaries
>> Version: 2009-6ubuntu1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> if texlive-base is not installed the binaries fmtutil, texconfig, updmap
>> and mktexfmt fail to run properly.
And not only these - hardly anything shipped by texlive-binaries does
anything sensible without other packages installed.
> Which gives the idea that a TL installation w/o that package is
> simply unusable. We could:
>
> - add a "recommends: texlive-base" to texlive-binaries
> - add the information that texlive-base is needed to the description
> of texlive-binaries
Maybe both. What about
--- control (revision 4664)
+++ control (working copy)
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, texlive-common (>= 2009), tex-common (>= 2.00), ed, perl
Conflicts: texlive-base-bin, dvi2tty
Replaces: texlive-base-bin, texlive-omega (<< 2008), dvipdfmx, texlive-extra-utils (<< 2008), texlive-font-utils (<< 2008), texlive-lang-cyrillic (<< 2008), texlive-xetex (<< 2008), texlive-metapost (<< 2008), texlive-lang-indic (<< 2008), texlive-formats-extra (<< 2008), dvi2tty, freetype1-tools
+Recommends: texlive-base
Provides: texlive-base-bin, dvi2tty
Description: Binaries for TeX Live
- This package contains all the binaries of TeX Live packages.
+ This package contains all the binaries of TeX Live packages.
+ .
+ Note that this package alone has hardly any functionality. Rather,
+ choose the texlive-* packages you want to use, e.g.
+ texlive-latex-recommended or context
Package: libkpathsea5
Section: libs
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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