[Pkg-texlive-maint] Depends and equivs package

[Christopher J. Walker]

At http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html, at the heading Depends, it says:

"  But there is a hack around this: Get the deb, unpack it as follows:

	mkdir foo
	mkdir foo/DEBIAN
	mkdir new
	dpkg-deb -x xyz_version.deb foo
	dpkg-deb -e xyz_version.deb foo/DEBIAN

  than edit foo/DEBIAN/control and add "| texlive-latex-recommended" to
  the dependenciy entries of tetex (I hope you know how to do this
   properly!). So for an example if you have

	Depends: tetex-base, tetex-bin"

This seems rather complicated, when I thought it was the problem that
equivs was supposed to solve?

I presume by the way that there is  a reason that you don't want the
texlive packages to provide tetex-bin/tetex-base.

Good luck.

Chris