[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#499629: Bug#499629: Bug#499629: texlive-latex-extra should be recommended dependency

[Georg Baum]

Am Montag, 22. September 2008 schrieb Per Olofsson:

> I wouldn't say it's unusual to have LyX installed without
> texlive-latex-extra. Although I agree that it's very unfortunate that
> integrals don't work without it. Maybe this bug should be reassigned
> to texlive, and esint asked to be moved to texlive-latex-recommended
> or texlive-fonts-recommended or something.

Integrals work fine without esint. Simply set the "use esint" setting from 
auto to off. The problem is that the look of many integrals is 
inconsistent without esint. It also depends on whether you use wasysym 
and/or amsmath (and in which order you load those packages).

IMO, the esint package is a must for everybody who uses more than just 
\int. OTOH people who dont use more specialized integral symbols or even 
math at all will never need the esint package.

If there was a texlive-math package I would put esint into that package. 
texlive-latex-recommended might be too strong for non-math users, 
texlive-fonts-recommended is wrong IMHO because esint is not only a font, 
it fixes other packages. IMHO the current status is not too bad: If 
somebody actually uses an integral that triggers esint, he will get a 
LaTeX error. If he does not know esint, he can find some information in 
the documentation, and then eithwer switch off esint or search for it in 
the package database, and install the needed package.


Georg