[Pkg-lyx-devel] For what do we Recommend wv?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:43:06PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> Sven Hoexter:

Hi,

> > I'm still undecided about where to place them. Maybe we should cast
> > a vote. ;)
> 
> Here's what I think:
> 
> * Only the lyx package should have recommends/suggests. People
>   shouldn't need to look at lyx-common.
> 
> * lyx should Depend: on packages which are strictly needed to run LyX.
> 
> * lyx should Recommend: packages which a "typical user" needs. I think
>   a typical user will use LyX to create DVI, PS, PDF and HTML, so lyx
>   should recommend the corresponding packages.
> 
> * Everything else goes into Suggests:.
ack

> The result should look something like:
> 
> Depends: lyx-common, lyx-qt | lyx-xforms | lyx-gtk, tetex-bin (>=
> 2.0.2-11) | texlive-latex-base, tetex-extra |
> texlive-latex-recommended, tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended,
> preview-latex-style, libtiff-tools, imagemagick, mime-support
> 
> Recommends: dvipost, kghostview | postscript-viewer,
> kpdf | pdf-viewer, konqueror | www-browser,
> tex4ht | hevea | tth | latex2html, kdeprint | lpr
> 
> Suggests: chktex, nowebm, groff, sgmltools-lite, linuxdoc-tools, rcs,
> gnuhtml2latex, wv
> 
> There are some dependencies I don't know much about. Why do we need
> mime-support?
No idea here.

> Why do we need imagemagick? Should libtiff-tools be
> moved to Recommends:?
Both are needed for image conversion. IMO both should stay as a
dependency.

> Should the TeX stuff be in Recommends: since
> it's not strictly required?
We call texhash in a postinst script so we require latex here.
Don't ask me why exactly we do this but LyX is still a frontend for
latex so it should be in depends I think.

Sven
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