Bug#464586: texlive packages' dependencies (was: Bug#464586: n/a, really)

2008-02-20 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 15 Feb 2008, Richard Hartmann wrote: There is only one way to really find that out, but which would not be feasible without automation. A parser that goes through all packages, looks for includes and saves that information into a directed graph. With some visualisation, it would be

Bug#464586: texlive packages' dependencies (was: Bug#464586: n/a, really)

2008-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
Richard Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 10:00 PM, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, there are no broken Depends. There are broken dependencies, but Depends is not the right level in nearly all cases; rather Suggests or

Bug#464586: texlive packages' dependencies (was: Bug#464586: n/a, really)

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you disagree? Just because you had some feeling about what Depends means, but were not aware of the policy definition? Or do you have reasons which are still valid after that citation? Indeed, I had a different

Bug#464586: n/a, really

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
Richard Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Catching all those reports in one place sounds like a good idea. An overview of how bad this is could help. The purpose was rather to get an overview about how hard it would be to fix all or most of them. But if you can not resolve those dependencies

Bug#464586: n/a, really

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Feb 13, 2008 10:00 PM, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, there are no broken Depends. There are broken dependencies, but Depends is not the right level in nearly all cases; rather Suggests or Recommends. That is because it is always only

Bug#464586: n/a, really

2008-02-11 Thread Richard Hartmann
Thanks for the retitle. I re-sent the report after messing up my first submit, screwing up the topic, in turn. Catching all those reports in one place sounds like a good idea. An overview of how bad this is could help. But if you can not resolve those dependencies without one large package, that