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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 189770] [NEW] texlive-common doesn't recommend texlive-pictures

On Mi, 06 Feb 2008, Thomas Folz-Donahue wrote:
> xy.sty is documented in "A not so short introduction to LaTeX2e";
> however, texlive-pictures does not appear to be recommended by any
> package in the tex distribution. This may lead to confusion among
> people who are new to tex. In order to find xy.sty, in fact, I had to
> go to packages.ubuntu.com.

Rubbish. Please close this bug. texlive-common is the common stuff and
will NEVER recommend anything special. Completely on the contrary, all
the packages DEPEND on texlive-common.

Furthermore, there is texlive-full which depends on texlive-pictures.

Best wishes

Norbert

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