(switching bugs, because we want to concentrate the ongoing discussion about the splitting scheme in one bug per source package)
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, and for Debian stable users it will take until 2008 or 2009 until > they can get a smaller tetex-base package - for the release of etch > (scheduled for the end of 2006), tetex-base needs to depend on all > pacakges that were split away. I don't think this needs to be true. First of all, we don't intend to split tetex-base into smaller packages. Instead, we want to move file to tetex-extra: rarely used fonts and stuff that didn't work without tetex-extra, anyway. If one looks closely, it is not possible to use all programs and formats that are supposed to be available with tetex-base+tetex-bin, because it turns out that they depend on some file(s) in tetex-extra. I don't remember any example offhand, but there are some. On the other hand, some things from tetex-extra must be moved to -base because they are a required part of LaTeX, and we talk about moving the complete tex/latex tree to -base, minus the font support for tetex-extra fonts and perhaps minus some big packages that are rarely used for build-deps. Therefore if we move files from and to tetex-base as we have discussed the last days, I expect that for most users who have only tetex-base installed things will run more smoothly than before, simply because some bugs vanish. Those who have tetex-extra installed won't notice a change, anyway. If this is true, we could simply keep the names as they are. The only group that really is badly affected could be ConTeXt users; does ConTeXt work currently without tetex-extra? >> Other people have requested that, and I cannot judge who has more >> experience with buildds. On the other hand, I can very well understand > > It would be good if Debian had a policy which of the many conflicting > goals were a priority... This is true, but I won't wait until we have that... > How will an average user install teTeX? > > Mst likely through a metapackage depending on everything like > apt-get install tetex > > And this should install at least the complete teTeX. ACK. See also #276173 Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
