[Bug 401545] Re: texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software

[Eric]

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.

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texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software
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