Re: TeXlive and xdg-utils
Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> writes:
> 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.
Yes, I know - but none of these packages should install a desktop
environment AFAIS. And if you want to use TeX packages without X11,
you'll have to drop recommends, anyway.
Regards, Frank
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