Hilmar Preuße <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17.10.08 Martin Pitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > >> texlive-extra-utils currently recommends dvi2tty and dvidvi. IMHO >> they should be dropped to Suggests:, since LaTeX defaults and >> encourages using PDF now. >> > I'm not sure if the discussion already ended. IMHO some people still > use dvi and have some good reasons to do it.
I use dvi routinely - but I never use dvi2tty or dvidvi. In particular, for the purpose which dvidvi served, I take the pdf route - the strengths of dvi lie elsewhere (a cool viewer usable without a mouse). >> Similarly, texlive-base-bin's Recommends: perl-tk seems too strong >> to me. I am a fairly regular LaTeX user and have never ever needed >> it. >> > texdoctk needs it, and fails to start if it is not installed. Calling > the command on the CLI causes and error message and from a menu it > calls xmessage to tell about the missing lib. This was implemented > about 2003 and we could lower the dep to recommend. Should we further > lower to Suggests? I think so - we do have decent error messages, and I expect that texdoctk might no longer be included upstream next year: It's basically unmaintained, whereas texdoc itself has now gotten new care. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
