Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:42:00AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Package: tetex-bin >> > Version: 3.0-9 >> > Severity: wishlist >> > >> > >> > xdvi compiled with lesstif2 works fine, and it does IMHO have >> > a nicer user interface. >> >> Stefan Ulrich once said that he thinks lesstif support is still >> experimental, therefore I don't fell confident that we can make this the >> default. But in case that our discussion about the splitting of tetex >> packages leads to a "tetex-bin-nox" and "tetex-bin-x11", we could >> provide tetex-bin-x11-lesstif as an alternative. > > If you do this, I'd vote for tetex-bin and tetex-bin-nox. > > My personal opinion regarding dependencies on relatively common things > like X libraries is that people with that much limited space that it > would matter should better use a distribution like Gentoo that gives > them even more opportunities like compiling with -Os.
In this case, the main motivation is not disk space. Rather, it is bandwidth and, in particular, installation time (the latter being probably more important on buildds) for packages that Build-Depend on tetex-bin, and the wish not to install xlibs on a server (that creates PDF files) for tetex-bin as a Depends or for direct installation. > If an extra package is made (that takes space on both the ftp archive > and the CDs), the default that > 95% of all users want should be a > tetex-bin package with everything and there's no need to add an -x11 > suffix to the package. The question is whether in fact >95% of the users want xdvi and texdoctk - how many people install tetex because they want to write TeX, and how many do it because some Depends or Recommends (e.g. documentation development packages, anything which can but need not use TeX as a backend) pulls it in? Plus the people who only create PDF. >> Adrian, are you interested in helping with the splitting? > > I'm sorry, but the time when I was active in Debian is over. Have fun in your new life :-) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
