Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so it's not all texlive but surely the proportion of users that need every > available language installed in vanishingly small ?
The proportion of users who should keep the transitional "tetex-bin" package installed is also vanishingly small. If you're not one of them, just remove it, and install as much of texlive's languages as you need. > Further, as far as I can see the tex system in installed by default to display > manpages. If tex is so good at typesetting why do manpages always appear in > 80 > column fixed width style ? TeX has nothing to do with manpages, and it is not needed for them. Moreover, one can configure man to display more than 80 columns (although I find it harder to read then) - look into its documentation. > Given that manpages always appear in 80 column fixed width form couldn't > something a little leaner be used to display them and thus consign this > behemoth to those specialists that use it's vast powers. If you don't need TeX, just remove tex-common and everything that depends on it. It won't affect your manpages. Is there still anything in this bugreport that should be dealt with? I don't think we could improve documentation, since your misconceptions were about - transitional packages, an general Debian issue - man pages, something that is unrelated to TeX. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
