On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:49:23PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > 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 We both know that, but it's not a particularly intuitive name. If you don't know how Debian's latex packaging works, how are you supposed to find that? If I do `apt-cache search latex' I see several tens of results, and if I scroll back through them and get lucky I might come across texlive-latex-recommended - TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages which is probably what I want to install. It's just unnecessarily hard IMHO. > > > '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 .... I don't know. It's up to you to consider what you think users will ask for. I think that 'latex' is the most obvious one, but perhaps others would make sense too. > […] Thanks for considering. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ iain@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ laney@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ laney@ubuntu.com ] PhD student [ ial@cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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