[tex-live] Please rename the texlive binary package to texlive-medium/minimal/whatever

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Tue Sep 29 23:03:30 CEST 2009


Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> Yes, for normal users, names like like "minimal" or "medium" are not
> meaningful (as opposed to "full"), and it would be nice to be able to
> install something like "texlive-latex" easily because this is what
> most people want.  But it's probably not sufficient to simply replace
> the name "texlive-medium" by "texlive-latex".  Sounds like a lot of
> work.

Hm, texlive-latex sounds nice. However, wouldn't people expect to get
"everything" for LaTeX?  However, our "texlive" package only depends on 

collection-fontsrecommended
collection-latexrecommended
collection-latex(base) (don't know the exact texlive name)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg


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