Hi Norbert, I assume you are the package maintainer, thank you for your contributions to debian. Also thank you for pointing out that the package can be deselected, it turns out this question was actually raised for this specific package a couple of times before, e.g. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1963939 and http://askubuntu.com/questions/84854/are-textlive-xxx-doc-packages-required-for-installing-lyx .
I believe the question is not whether the package is recommended or required, but rather if the package needs to have the same big PDF file twice, in english and in french. I just mentioned that I got the package without need to underline that this could be the case with many other users as well. So if I understood your reply correctly, you are convinced that: a) minitoc-fr.pdf (27 MB) belongs into the package for users speaking arbitrary languages and b) minitoc.pdf must have many figures of flags and maps of countries? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-extra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822828 Title: texlive-latex-extra-doc is too big in size and includes unneeded big minitoc-fr.pdf file (~27Mb) Status in “texlive-extra” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: texlive-latex-extra-doc is too big in size (187 megabytes) and includes unneeded big minitoc-fr.pdf files (~27Mb size) in /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/minitoc/ folder: ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ ls -lh usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/minitoc/mini*pdf 27M 2009-05-31 00:46 usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/minitoc/minitoc-fr.pdf 27M 2009-05-31 00:46 usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/minitoc/minitoc.pdf I don't know why these minitoc*.pdf files are so big, maybe because of included images in PDF files? It would be nice to decrease size of minitoc*.pdf files, maybe converting to Dejavu or HTML format would help? If there are no way to decrease size of minitoc*.pdf files at least twice then please remove minitoc-fr.pdf file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/822828/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
