Dear Andreas: Ok, I admit that the real problem is that the dependence to latex2html require tetex-extra and a lot of other packages,and after this additional dependence, my system require another 100 M disk space. I don't like installing a lot of packages just because an unnecessary package. I believe other people may feel the same like me. Why not just left this an option to user? I mean, in the upstream source, to build the doc is optional, we can just left this like the original source.
Another reason, we have an analogue: this package support matlab binding too. Of course, we will not enable this binding by default. but user can simply apt-get source and add this support. This is just like the doc package's situation, we can disable it by default, but easily enable it. Further more, I think there will be few people want to patch doc package, writing the right doc is the responsibility of upstream authors. I consider that's why the upstream authors offer a compiled doc package for us. best regards Changyan Xie On δΈ€, 2007-02-05 at 12:47 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Well, in a Debian source package we provide the *source*. The rationale > is if you need to patch something in the docs you will have problems > to modify a PDF. So compiling the docs is really a good idea and > the compile time should not really be an argument here. > Kind regards > > Andreas. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
