Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Which makes me realise that dvidvi depends on tetex to the >>> exclusion of texlive... Pfff... I don't even know why it depends on >>> tetex-bin, to be honest. > >> That is probably because it needs to access fonts, and therefore >> needs mktexpk and friends. > > 1) dvidvi does not link to any library (other than libc, of course)
Ah, I was confused. Of course, since the output of dvi is just dvi, it doesn't need fonts, as all the other dvi-to-something programs do. > I thus conclude that dvidvi cannot execute any executable from > tetex-bin, nor access any data from dependencies of tetex-bin > (e.g. tetex-base) and hence the package has no reason to depend on > them. > > I uploaded to unstable stripping the dependency. Fine. Should I include an unfreeze request with our request to let the fixed texlive in? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
