[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#499629: Is it possible to move the -doc packages in texlive-latex-extra to Suggests?

[Frank Küster]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Mo, 24 Nov 2008, Sven Hoexter wrote:
>> Is there a special reason for you to recommend the -doc package?
>
> Yes. Licensing issues. 

As well as practical reasons. Lyx users may be a different story, but
for anyone who wants to create LaTeX code on their own, I would really
advice to look at the docs. And I would not want to see the mid- and
long-term effect of a standard TeXLive installation not containing the
documentation for LaTeX packages: 

People would get used to google for docs even more than they do now, and
would of course find either outdated documents, or the documentation of
a newer version not yet in stable/testing/Debian at all.

Naturally a much-too-large proportion of such users would be eager to
file bugs because the packages don't work "as advertised".

> Many package authors actually could get angry
> that we separated the .sty files from the documentation. 

Package authors, of course, already face the very same problem, and
therefore often require complete redistribution *for*a*reason*.

Regards, Frank

P.S. I deliberately wrote LaTeX above. Things may be different with real
TeX (use the source, Luke, for the small number of add-ons) and ConTeXt
(use ConTeXtgarden).
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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