Bug#688845: texlive-fonts-extra: Please demote all additional Depends to Recommends
On Fr, 11 Jan 2013, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Could this please get implemented in the next upload? It is an annoyance
> that I am forced to install a dozen additional font packages just because
> I want to use "fourier" in my LaTeX documents.
Could you please recognize that packaging TeX Live is not as easy as
task as you might imagine.
Did you check that *none* of the other files distributed by TeX Live
in the texlive-fonts-extra package require any of the font packages
that it depends on?
It is already a service to the users that we package and split TeX LIve
into smaller collections. I could have gone forth and just package
*ONE* package "texlive" which ships all the 2Gb ...
So please understand, that for implementing this there are a lot of
checks to be done, and instead of writing angry emails one could
help instead.
Norbert
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