Michael Biebl wrote: > Package: texlive > Severity: wishlist > > The texlive-doc-en package is rather big (~55mb). If you want to install > texlive instead of tetex and with other packages starting to depend on > texlive | tetex-base, you are forced to install the documentation. > It would be great if it was possible to choose if you want to install the > documentation or not (either by using a Suggests or a Recommends). > The same is true for texlive-fonts-recommended and > texlive-latex-recommended. If they are not really "required" for a > working texlive installation, their depedency should probably also > degraded to Recommends:
Are there any packages that depend on 'texlive'? This package is meant to be a meta package that installs a reasonable subset of TeX Live for those people who want to actively work with TeX. For those people, the two *-recommended packages do make sense. Other packages that just need some bits and pieces of TeX for them to work should explicitly depend on the texlive-* packages, that provide these things. However, I can understand the point concerning texlive-doc-en, especially since there is some highly specialized documentation in there. Here a Recommends or a splitting of the package might be appropriate. Other comments? cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
