[tex-live] xfrac.sty depends on latex3

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Sep 29 14:07:51 CEST 2009


Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 29 Sep 2009, Morten Høgholm wrote:
>> Just leave it as it is - the default for most TeX Live users is to
>> install the whole shebang anyway...
> 
> That does not help us on Debian where one collection maps to one debian
> binary package and we need decent dependencies.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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which confuses a lot of ubuntu users, so they end up installing 
everything anyway. It is nice that debian provides TL in so many 
pacakges, but IMO it just serves as a big confusion for the average user.


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/daleif


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