[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#611862: Bug#611862: Bug#611862: lyx: Add eLyXer to the "recommends" packages for LyX

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

2011-02-06 13:24, Sven Hoexter skrev:
> I'm not sure what's the right thing for most users of the Debian lyx package.
> 
> On the one hand the default installation grows bigger and bigger but on the
> other hand HTML export seems to be kind of a wanted feature with a now build in
> implementation and the userbase elyxer got so far. Admittedly the output of
> the build in exporter is very ugly compared to elyxer. Even the argument
> about the size of the default installation is a weak one in the light
> of the few hundred kilobytes elyxer would add.
> 
> Another opinion or other arguments for or against a change are appreciated.

According to Debian policy:

"The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
with this one in all but unusual installations."

I don't think elyxer fits this criterion. I would say that the typical
usage of LyX is to produce PDF documents, not HTML documents, so it
would not be unusual to not have elyxer installed (I haven't, for
example). That said, the recommends list is already so bloated that it
doesn't matter if elyxer is added. So, being pragmatical, I think we can
add it.

(I would really like to remove texlive-latex-extra, texlive-science,
texlive-generic-extra from Recommends. But I understand that some
features stop working then, so maybe it's confusing for users.)

-- 
Pelle