Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Anthony Mapes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > While we're on the topic of signatures, what do you consider to be good > and bad to include in signatures? Very amusing! You've made my day. :) > - -- > Anthony Mapes > -

Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:38:28 -0500, Anthony Mapes wrote: > (Are there email clients out there that don't display who the sender > was?) If such a mail client exists, its users should not be forgiven.

Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Dec 24 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: >> >> [snipped 32 lines] > > This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that > you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line i

Re: OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread Anthony Mapes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 While we're on the topic of signatures, what do you consider to be good and bad to include in signatures? I've seen a lot of conflicting opinions online, particularly surrounding whether or not to include your email address. (Are there email client

OT: signatures (was Re: removing TexLive Docs packages)

2015-12-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-24 at 07:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: > > [snipped 32 lines] This is standard practice; you don't usually need to indicate that you've snipped at all (except maybe by leaving a blank line in between the quoted bits where the snip was), much

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,The Wanderer wrote: [snipped 32 lines] >> Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours. > > The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as > the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's > doing will see this line

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-24 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd >> like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future in

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Udyant Wig
The aptitude command line I suggested removed such documentation packages as texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-extra-doc apart from the science, pstricks, and pictures doc packages. The language docs had to be handled specially because of the transiti

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-23 at 16:48, Doug wrote: > On 12/23/2015 01:45 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and >> I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future >> i

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Doug
On 12/23/2015 01:45 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLiv

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the > >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This fixes error in my previous post. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > # To prevent these packages from getting installed later: ... > If that's been changed, or if there's a mechanism which avoids it and > does wo

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and >> I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop futu

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Udyant Wig
On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the > entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd > like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of > the same type whenever I Upgrade

removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-22 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLive. Could someone please suggest a way? I'm on debian