On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 18:46 +0000, Florian Schanda wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2008 13:32:47 Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Fr, 29 Feb 2008, Florian Schanda wrote: > > > When installing texlive or anything that depends on it (such as prosper), > > > a huge amount of documentation and language specific things are > > > installed. > > > > Wrong. You either installed one of the transitional tetex-* packages > > depending on a huge amount of texlive packages (necessary evil to cover > > all files from former tetex packages), or you are installing recommended > > packages. Most texlive packages split off the doc files into -doc > > packages which are only recommended, socalling aptitude with > > --without-recommended etc will NOT install those files. > > This is the output of apt-get install prosper: > > The following extra packages will be installed: > doc-base docbook-xml dvipdfmx gs gs-common gs-gpl latex-beamer latex-xcolor [...] > xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils > 0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 347MB of archives. > After this operation, 711MB of additional disk space will be used.
Might it be that you are using lenny? A crucial fact that you didn't tell us, because you didn't use reportbug on your report. In that case it is clear: The version of prosper in lenny still uses tetex-* packages as default dependencies. However, as we already explained, the tetex-* packages have been replaced by metapackages that bring in quite a lot of texlive-* packages. The prosper version in sid does not have this problem, but hasen' migrated to lenny for quite some time now. All this is unrelated to the texlive-* packages, though. > > Since we in fact have to distribute the doc files with the style files > > but we agreed with the authors that recommending them is ok, this will > > and cannot be changed. > > That's unfortunate; I suppose I have to compile from scratch and make a > custom > package. Oh well, no problem either way. No, just install prosper's dependencies before installing prosper: apt-get install texlive texlive-pstricks prosper should give you a much smaller installation. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
