Bug#170382: acknowledged by developer (Bug#170382: fixed in tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-4)

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#170382: acknowledged by developer (Bug#170382: fixed in tetex-base 1.0.2+20021025-4)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 10:35:05 +0100

> Sorry, but this isn't going to fix the issue for me. I clearly explained
> in my response to bugreport 173872 that this isn't going to fix the
> problem for me. I told you that a move of the dependency from tetex-bin
> to tetex-extra will not help. Therefor I restate my suggestion in my
> original bugreport to move all binaries depending on perltk into an
> extra package. This fix isn't going to solve the problem to me, but
> still force me to install about 7MB of unnecessary and unneeded stuff.

Note this is not "the issue for you" but the common or global 
issue.  Then please answer my question in #173872

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Bug#173872: tetex-bin: spurious dependency on perl-tk
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:43:13 +0900 (JST)

> I suspect you didn't know the structure of teTeX.
> It consists of TeX itself and many related components
> found in CTAN site.
> 
> It gathers them in a consistent system with good design
> so to split it to small components means to go back to
> the start point again.  In a sense, it could be vain
> effort or we would lose a reason to use teTeX source.
> 
> It is not simply collected but woven in other words ;)
...
> The difficult point is not lack of ability of dpkg but
> lack of good/reasonable design to split.
> 
> At least, I have no real idea how to split teTeX yet.
...
> Yes it could be divisible theoretically but to split it
> in a way enough stable, reasonable and satisfactory in
> practice could be difficult.

You said,

From: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#173872: tetex-bin: spurious dependency on perl-tk
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:31:26 +0100

> It wouldn't help in my case, since tetex-extra contains koma-script
> which I'm using for all my letters and other documents that I write with
> the help of latex. So moving the dependency wouldn't solve the problem

then you already installed extra 38 Mb package, so you could 
claim tetex-extra should be splitted into koma-script and 
others and anyone could claim his/her specific desire to split 
tetex in some way.

But I cann't believe this makes tetex stable and reasonable 
package unless we have a resonable, good, global design.

Please note we didn't claim we never split tetex, we already
had splitted texinfo and cweb is now under consideration.

Thanks,				2003-1-6(Mon)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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