Bug#669351: Please provide a 'latex' package
On Do, 19 Apr 2012, Iain Lane wrote:
> A friend just complained to me that he found it nonobvious which package
> to install to get a decent LaTeX environment on Debian. He'd tried
apt-get install texlive
> 'apt-get install latex', but it failed because there is no package with
> that name.
Yes, bacause what should it be? latex? Or also dvips? Or also pdflatex?
Or also beamer? Or also ....
> Perhaps it would be a nice idea for one of the texlive-latex packages to
> Provide: latex?
Provide: latex .... hmmm not sure. Others here on debian-tex-maint?
Any opinion?
If I would add it to the package "texlive" which is more or less
a small but workable latex installation.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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