Hi all!
On Die, 15 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls: File gfcore.sty' not
> >> found.
> >> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls:305: Emergency stop.
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> >> Installing texlive-pictures solves this. Should texlive-latex-recommended
> >> depend on it then?
> >
> > That's one possibility. A recommends or suggests would probably be
> > enough, though. After all its only one small component of texlive-latex-
> > recommended that cannot be used without texlive-pictures. Another option
> > would be to remove beamer and pgf from the texlive-* packages and
> > depend/recomend/suggest the separate pgf and latex-beamer packages.
>
> Wasn't this the usual approach, anyway? latex-beamer seems to be fairly
> well maintained.
$ apt-cache show pgf
...
Version: 1.00-1
$ grep pgf CHANGES.packaging
* upgrade pgf in texlive-pictures to 1.01 for compatibility fixes
pgf should be updated or it will break *ALL* old documents when using
pgf-1.00.
latex-beamer is up2date.
I haven't come around to write bug reports for this ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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