Bug#60253: More clearly

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:47:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:31:56AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
> >  > tetex-bin contains basic binaries of teTeX and they need
> >  > macros, fonts, etc. which should be contained in imaginary/virtual
> >  > tetex-base package.
> > 
> > normally you would have do depend as follows, because -base can not do
> > without -bin and viceversa:
> > 
> > tetex-base depends on tetex-bin
> > tetex-bin depends on tetex-base
> 
> In that case, what's the point of separating those two packages? You should
> put them in the same package if the components can't do without each other.

Different source packages.

   Julian

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