Hi Andrew, On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 19:45 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > Package: tetex-base > Version: 2007-13 > Severity: serious > > Hi > > >From the description > > teTeX is no longer developed upstream, and has been replaced by the TeX > Live collection. This is a transitional package to bring former teTeX > users a decent selection of TeX Live packages. It can be safely removed > (unless some external packages still depend on tetex-base). > > However the package does not depend or recommend any packages, and so > doesn't provide "a decent selection of TeX Live packages."
I am not sure if this is really a bug, let alone a serious one. Let me try to explain this: The dependencies for the teTeX packages where such that tetex-base formed the basis of everything, but it did not provide any useful functinality without tetex-bin installed, which depended on tetex-base. So in the teTeX world in order to have, e.g., a functional 'latex' command, you would have to install tetex-bin which would then draw in tetex-base. In the TeX Live world, these depencies have been reversed. Now texlive-base-bin is the basis and different macro packages depend on that. Hence, if you want a functional 'latex' command, you have to install texlive-latex-base which draws in texlive-base-bin. So every TeX user had to have tetex-bin installed, and every package that depended on a working TeX system had to depend on tetex-bin. Now the transitional tetex-bin package does have the required dependencies to ensure that a working TeX system is provided. The transitional tetex-base package is just a technical necessity. Do you (or somebody else) have any suggestion how to improve the wording of the description? Otherwise I would suggest to close this bug. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
