Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> severity 428908 serious
>
> "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>From the bug submitter.
>
>>configure: error: LaTeX not found, aborting!
>>You must install LaTeX for preview to work.
>>
>>so, i decided to purge all about emacs and install firts :
>>
>>apt-get install texlive.
>
> I think we've already discussed this in some older bugreport.  I repeat
> from memory:
>
> - auctex needs to Depend on a package which provides the latex format,
>   i.e. texlive-latex-base, hence the severity serious
>
> - preview-latex-style only depends on texlive-base, which makes sense
>   because you can also use it with plain TeX or ConTeXt.  But I suggest
>   that it should Recommend texlive-latex-base

preview-latex-style is not usable with anything but LaTeX.  Would be
nice if it were, but that's how it is.

> - please please drop all references to tetex-*.  In particular,
>   tetex-base is now an empty package which depends on nothing.

-- 
David Kastrup

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