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

[Dara Adib]

> => It's a suggested package.
> "This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others"

It's not in my position to judge whether a package deserves to be
suggests or recommends, but it is still appears to be a problem that
integrals don't work.

It might be a good idea to resemble the LyX Windows installer in terms
of recommends. For instance, "features" (MiKTeX is obviously
different) installed by the LyX Windows installer could be part of
depends and recommends. Of course this is not as easy as it seems
since LyX has several different Windows installers[1]. The two
realistically complete installers IMHO are 95 MB and 109 MB in file
size (the standard installer is 18 MB, but it downloads MiKTeX over
Internet if not installed). The -extra package doesn't seem so bad in
this comparison, but the LyX Windows installer may be more specific
than just installing something equivalent to the entire -extra
package.

On the other hand, reassigning the bug to texlive could be a solution,
but that's not for me to decide.

[1] ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.6/