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

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 20 Nov 2009, Eric wrote:
> 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.

Already discussed hundreds of times, this is invalid bug. Please
read up on the Debian BTS for explanations.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   preining at jaist.ac.jp
Vienna University of Technology                               preining at logic.at
Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force)                    preining at debian.org
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