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Re: TeXlive and xdg-utils



On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Frank Kuester wrote:
> > Indeed, but it is getting hard now to install a basic TeX on a
> > (free)desktop free computer, hence my email.
> 
> This would be a problem, I agree.  However, I don't see how this is the
> case: 
> 
> Package: xdg-utils
> Recommends: iceweasel | www-browser, x11-utils, x11-xserver-utils, file, mime-support, shared-mime-info
> Suggests: gvfs-bin
> 
> Does this force the installation of a desktop environment?  I don't see why.

aptitude can be configured (and I think it may be by default) to
automatically install all the recommended packages.  It nags if you
don't.

   Julian


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