Re: TeXlive and xdg-utils

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmb65@rezozer.net>]

On 08/07/12 21:30, Frank Kuester wrote:
> 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.

I dropped recommends and I configured apt accordingly.

Jerome

> Regards, Frank

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