Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 15:56 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> mpost, >> >> mpto, >> >> makempx >> >> /usr/bin/makempy (MetaPost) >> >> /usr/bin/mptopdf >> > >> > I would suggest that MetaPost is now regarded as a core component of a >> > modern TeX distribution, so I'd suggest keeping it in the core. >> >> Hm, well. So far, I have not looked at tetex-bin-core (and the new >> tetex-base) as "core of a modern TeX distribution", but rather as "what >> is needed in a Build-Depends". From this point of view I doubt that >> MetaPost has its place in -core. What do others think? > > I am a regular MetaPost user, but I would vote for it going to > tetex-bin-extra. The TEXMF/metapost directory allready is in tetex-extra > and should stay there. I don't expect anybody to uses it for a > Build-Depends. One could try to find out what all the packages > build-depending on tetex-extra actually use, but that would be a lot of > work.
Unrelated to MetaPost, or at least not specific: Once the newly split packages are in unstable, I suggest we send a mail to devel-announce and/or all packages (build-)depending on tetex-extra and ask people to check whether they still need this. We also ask them to tell us if they do, and if we have a lot of time we can even do a mass bug filing on packages that depend on -extra but have not told us that they still need to. >> >> /usr/bin/allcm >> >> /usr/bin/allec >> >> /usr/bin/allneeded (create many CM/EC pk fonts at once) >> > >> > Why throw away these scripts? >> >> In order to keep tetex-bin-core as small as possible. Not because of >> disk space, but in order to keep it simply. I don't think that any sane >> mind will call allcm in debian/rules before running latex over their >> documentation. Am I insane myself? > > These scripts are useful when one installs a system and does not wnat to > wait for font creation when 'in production use'. It would be pointless > and counterproductive to call them from debian/rules, since more fonts > than necessary would be created. Of course - the question was rethorical. So the answer to Julian's question is: Because they are not needed on build-depending packages. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
