On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended > > description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! > > Sounds like a symptom of bundling lots of CTAN packages into one > Debian package. Personally I think it would be much better to make > texlive-latex-extra a metapackage depending on individual Debian > packages of CTAN packages.
Except that individually, the CTAN packages are very small, and generally, one tends to install a lot of them. Plus, the overhead of having a separate package is an order of magnitude larger than an extra line or two in the description field. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster. -- Anthony Towns -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150112015824.gg3...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
