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Re: Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space



On 12.05.12 David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

> > Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the only
> > solution you get a in-place upgrade.  (texpower is empty, just
> > depending on texlive-latex-extra which contains texpower)
> 
> That isn't the only solution. There's not one monolithic GNOME
> package, nor even a monolithic GNOME-games package.  Any time
> there's a stand-alone component under 1 MB that can't be installed
> without adding 450 MB of other stuff, perhaps it's time for more
> fine-grained dependencies.
> 
You probably didn't set 'Install-Recommends "false"'; in your
apt.conf. Hence apt tries to install also the recommended packages
and we have set the doc packages to recommended. Yes, these doc
packages are quite large, a minimal TL installation should be quite
smaller. Could you test it?

H.
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