Package: pdfjam
Version: 1.20-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi there,
I've used pdfjam several times to merge pdf files - it's a very nice program. 
But the sheer size of it's 
dependencies is huge: 

   - texlive-fonts-recommended sums up to 178MB
   - tetex-extra sums to 662MB! (the same with texlive-latex-recommended!)

It ends up that a simple command-line pdf utility can take almost 200MB HD 
space, up to more than 600MB in 
the worst case scenario.
This is not a bug per se - I fully understand that TeX is the backbone of the 
application - but I suggest 
a dependecies' review. Are all packages in the meta-packages dependences really 
needed, isn't it possible to 
narrow them down?

Thanks for the time!
Alex Henry, Brazil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pdfjam depends on:
pn  tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-r <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra | texlive-latex-r <none>     (no description available)

pdfjam recommends no packages.


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