On Fr, 20 Nov 2009, Eric wrote: > The Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 7, defines a Recommends as a "strong, > but not absolute, *dependency*" (emphasis added.) These documentation > packages should be Suggests, defined as packages that "can perhaps > enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is > perfectly reasonable". These packages take approximately 230MB and are > superfluous, and compared to ~15MB for an example package+dependencies, > is extreme. 230MB worth of text documentation is a lot to recommend.
Already discussed hundreds of times, this is invalid bug. Please read up on the Debian BTS for explanations. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology prein...@jaist.ac.jp Vienna University of Technology prein...@logic.at Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) prein...@debian.org gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BILBSTER A pimple so hideous and enormous that you have to cover it with sticking plaster and pretend you've cut yourself shaving. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs