Bug#688845: texlive-fonts-extra: Please demote all additional Depends to Recommends

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Fabian,

On Mo, 14 Jan 2013, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> it seems that my mail sounded a lot more angry than it was meant to.  

Same for mine, reading it the second time it sounded a bit too harsh,
sorry for that. Late night emailing is dangerous.

> > 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?
>
> No, and I am even sure that some other files in texlive-fonts-extra *do* 

Actually, it is even worse for the time being, namely that the respective
texlive packages ship *links* to the font files, so we have to depend
on them.

If we don't have links, then someone searching for the fpnts with kpathsea
will not find them, and some documents might not work.

I don't know what is the optimal solution ... or better - I know what
it is, but it will not happen: Namely packaging each and every TeX Live
package into *one* Debian pacage. But this has been rejected before,
and in addition will need a lot of work...

Norbert

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