On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Frank K??ster wrote:

> 3.1 tetex-bin
> 
> * minimal scheme
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> tetex-bin is split into tetex-bin-nox and tetex-bin-x11; tetex-bin
> continues to exist as a dummy package.  Besides sorting files with dh_*
> and writing the necessary control information, the only thing we have to
> do is connected to mf: we probably need to set up an alternatives system
> for mf-nowin and mfw.
> 
> * advanced scheme
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Additionally, tetex-bin-nox is split into tetex-bin-mini and
> tetex-bin-extra (or similar), where tetex-bin-mini contains only
> pdfetex, mf-nowin and dvips plus the needed scripts/binaries smaller
> than 100K.  This would require more work, because finding out which
> small programs are needed isn't trivial.

I agree with this in principle, but not using a size criterion.
Rather, those binaries which depend on something in tetex-extra (eg
aleph, omega, whatever we put there) should move to tetex-bin-extra
and those which don't can stay in tetex-bin.  Also, would
tetex-bin-core be a better name?

   Julian


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