Package: latex-ucs-uninames Severity: minor Hi,
(I haven't installed it yet, so it might be that I'm missing something, but...) The latex-ucs package shows in its description: Install the package latex-ucs-uninames if you want to see the full unicode character names in LaTeX error messages and can afford the space (about 320kB). First, it's 376k, according to the Installed-Size header in the package ;-P Second, I'm proposing you think about whether there's actually a benefit in splitting off this package; splitting off data that's part of the same source package to its own separate binary package is usually only interesting in two specific cases: * You have a *lot* of data (several megabytes) that your application absolutely needs, but is architecture-independent; in that case, it's interesting to split it off to a separate architecture-independent package and have the application's package depend on that one, so that you don't overload the mirrors unnecessarily; * You have a *lot* of optional data that might be interesting for some users, but certainly not all. Because you don't want to overload your users' hard disks with whole gobs of data that isn't likely of use to them, you suggest or recommend the package and split it off. The first clearly isn't applicable here, because the latex-ucs package does work without those unicode names. That leaves the second. Given the fact that the latex-ucs package is 2.2M large, however, and the latex-ucs-names package is about a fifth of that, I don't think this applies here, either. Add to that the fact that for a decent LaTeX environment you really need to have at least some 30-40MB of disk space (not counting system libraries), I don't think half a floppy disk would matter in terms of disk space. OTOH, It _will_ matter in terms of usability, since better error messages are always an advantage; and you will get those better error messages with that uninames package installed. For that reason, I'm thinking it's going to be a better idea to merge these two packages into one. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.2 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
