Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it really necessary to reduce the package as much as necessary for > the buildds? Wouldn't a more useful goal for a larger number of users > be to break the package into a "core" package, which is the "common" > stuff (somewhat arbitrarily defined), which would include what you > have said plus (pdf)e(la)tex, mf(-nowin), metapost and maybe a small > amount of other stuff, and an -extra package for everything else. The > difference to the buildds would be very minor, but for the users could > be significant. (Note that I'm not advocating things which would > bring in extra package dependencies.)
This sounds very sensible. After all, we *will* continue to have lots of "ordinary" users, and we should care for them. If we choose to go that way, it is even more important that tetex-base should contain the complete tex/latex directory, and not be deprived of custom-bib, koma-script, minitoc and others, as Ralf once suggested. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
