[tex-live] How to handle interdependencies of collections
Frank Küster
frank at kuesterei.ch
Wed May 9 10:19:52 CEST 2007
karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:
> but collection-humanities does not require collection-latexextra. (In
> fact, it does not require any collection, not even latexbase, but that
> might be because some are generic macros.)
>
> It would be ok for collection-humanities to require "latexbase" (I
> assume that is collection-latex in the TL world), but requiring
> latexextra would defeat the purpose of collection-humanities.
I see.
> On the Debian side, I think we can add a Recommends or Suggests, a "soft
> Requires".
>
> That sounds reasonable in general, if you want to make a general
> statement. Other possibilities would be to move acronym to humanities,
> or bigfoot to latexextra. I don't have strong feelings about it.
acronym is not only useful for humanities, I'd say.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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