Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, > tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised > if they get dragged in by dependencies anyway. aptitude holds don't > prevent versioned dependencies from forcing an upgrade, unfortunately. > (and TBH, I hardly ever use holds these days, so they may be even more > buggy than I think) > > Personally, I would just bite the bullet and do the upgrade -- tetex > is going away and you'll have to switch over eventually anyway. Is there > a particular difficulty you're running into with the upgrade?
The problem is that upgrading tetex-extra will pull in a lot texlive-*lang packages you will probably never need: $ aptitude -s install tetex-extra Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: tetex-bin texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-croatian texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-danish texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-finnish texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-greek texlive-lang-hungarian texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-latin texlive-lang-mongolian texlive-lang-norwegian texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-lang-swedish texlive-lang-vietnamese texlive-latex-extra texlive-math-extra texlive-pstricks texlive-publishers texpower texpower-manual The following packages have been kept back: bash-doc expectk icedove icedove-locale-de The following NEW packages will be installed: tetex-bin tetex-extra texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-croatian texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-danish texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-finnish texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-greek texlive-lang-hungarian texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-latin texlive-lang-mongolian texlive-lang-norwegian texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-lang-swedish texlive-lang-vietnamese texlive-latex-extra texlive-math-extra texlive-pstricks texlive-publishers texpower texpower-manual 0 packages upgraded, 30 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 216MB of archives. After unpacking 420MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Would download/install/remove packages. I found no other way than deselecting tetex-extra and manually installing the wanted texlive packages to avoid this. And it is probably easier to do this if the rest of the system is up to date already. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]