texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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texlive-extra (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: texlive-latex-extra
On a virgin ubuntu jaunty(9.04) system installing texlive-latex-extra will install 385MB. Only 147MB is software while 238MB is documentation.
These figures are from aptitude and include texlive-latex-extra and its dependencies.
The doc packages installed are listed here
iA doc-base +377kB
iA texlive-
iA texlive-doc-base +1245kB
iA texlive-
iA texlive-
iA texlive-
iA texlive-
iA texlive-
iA texlive-
This may not be a problem for desktop systems but for small server systems especially virtual machines and flash based embedded systems it is undesirable.
Changed in texlive-extra (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
The Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 7, defines a Recommends as a "strong, but not absolute, *dependency*" (emphasis added.) These documentation packages should be Suggests, defined as packages that "can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable". These packages take approximately 230MB and are superfluous, and compared to ~15MB for an example package+ dependencies, is extreme. 230MB worth of text documentation is a lot to recommend.