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texlive-extra package

  1. Bug #401545
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 401545

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 401545] Re: texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software

On Fr, 20 Nov 2009, Eric wrote:
> 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.

Already discussed hundreds of times, this is invalid bug. Please
read up on the Debian BTS for explanations.

Best wishes

Norbert

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