Package: kdegraphics Version: 4:3.5.6-2 The kdegraphics package depends on kdvi. The kdvi package < 4:3.5.6-2 recommended the now obsolete tetex-bin package. Version 4:3.5.6-2 has replaced this with texlive-fonts-recommended and made this a dependency as well, which in turn pulls in a TeX system: texlive-common, -base, -base-bin and -doc-base (and may be more), together a download of more than 100MB.
This seems a bit much for KDE users who don't use TeX, and leads to a sizable duplication for those (like myself) who elect to install TeXLive straight from the TUG distro (if only to avoid lengthy upgrades with multiple runnings of mktexlsr, updmap-sys and format generation). The kdvi maintainer considers *not* having the above texlive dependencies a bug (see message under bug 407574 dated 21 April 2007), but this clearly only affects users of kdvi and the texlive packages. It seems reasonable, in view of the above, that kdvi be removed as a dependency of kdegraphics. Habitual users of kdvi should have no trouble installing this package on their own. -- Henk Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes." Attributed to L.J. Savage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
