On 6/30/12 9:24 AM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Op 29-06-12 17:43, Sjors Gielen schreef: >> Op 29-06-12 17:38, Alexander Hansen schreef: >>> On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: >>>> I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said >>>> new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since >>>> its being deprecated for ginstall-info upstream so maybe we need to look >>>> at debs of debs? I'll re-work debianutils today and split it up I should >>>> be able to make it 2 pkgs and break out po4a I did it for the new dpkg >>>> already. BTW po4a is the po translator Debian now uses on all essentials. >>>> >>> >>> Meh. If dpkg upstream is using TeX instead of the old install-info >>> that's going to be really painful for our purposes. _They_ can do that >>> since they're fundamentally a provider of prebuilt binaries, and aren't >>> forcing all of _their_ users to install TeX. >>> >>> I wonder if there's a lighter-weight option we can use here... >> >> I'll check how much of TexInfo is actually needed to get just the >> ginstall-info binary. > > It turns out it's pretty easy to get install-info out of the texinfo > package, so that's an option we could go for that's compatible with > Debian's new choices. > > It got me wondering, though: why is depending on texinfo a big deal? > Texinfo itself is only 6 mb, the .deb only 1 mb, and it only depends on > gettext, iconv and ncurses. I think only the ncurses dependency would be > worth the simpler package, and I'm not sure if that's worth the trouble. > As far as I know, simply depending on texinfo is a great solution to get > a correct install-info. > > (this is, of course, in contrast with texlive, whose .deb is 600M and > which takes 3 GB on disk. But that package has no relation to texinfo.) > > Sjors > > > >
The big deal here was that I thought that the issue here was that Debian was literally using the "tex" command, not 'texinfo', because that's what was in the email text (see above). I don't see anything too awful about Depending on texinfo, since it only depends on Essential packages. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
