Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, uh, AUCTeX depends on preview-latex-style iff tl-latex-base is >> installed. Or something like that. >> >> (auctex & tl-latex-base) => preview-latex-style > > Which can in practice well expressed by letting preview-latex-style > depend on latex. > >>> I think auctex still should get the same depends, because it does >>> need it itself (and preview.sty might become a preview.tex sister in >>> the future). >> >> AUCTeX can be used not just for LaTeX, though _iff_ you have LaTeX >> installed, it would be somewhat surprising not to use AUCTeX for it. > > Yes, but the Debian auctex package needs latex for installation, because > it reruns "./configure", which fails without latex.
Because LaTeX (and other stuff) is used for generating the documentation. But it is probably not a hard requirement for the finished package. -- David Kastrup
