Re: teTeX kind of broken

[Kevin Dalley <kevin@aimnet.com>]

Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better
than nothing.  Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient
considering the number of users installing tetex.

Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de> writes:

> 
> Marcelo Magallon writes:
>  > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
>  > 
>  > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX
>  > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool",
>  > > > etc.
>  > > 
>  > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the
>  > > replaces.
>  > 
>  > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we
>  > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on
>  > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove
>  > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more
> 
> Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted
> instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the
> preinst script it is to late.
> 
>  > descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex
>  > bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a
>  > known solution.
>  > 
> 
> The only solution I know is to do it in the right order, but how do
> you enforce this?
> 


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Kevin Dalley
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