Re: Some suggestions for the homepage

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, [iso-8859-1] Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> - you could add texshade, similar to boxshade, but exclusively creating
>>  (La)TeX input:
> Besides the home page I wonder if you think that this also should go into
> the list of dependencies for the med-bio package.  While I personally really
> like (La)TeX I wonder if we would just flood the box of people who install
> med-bio with a certain amount of software (tetex packages are not really
> small) which is perhaps never used.  The possible alternative would be to
> use a
>      Recommends: texshade
> What do you think about it?

You are probably right, and depending on teTeX would be too much,
especially if it is just because of such a small application. However,
we need not decide on this now, need we? There's no package for
TeXshade, and once there is one we can think about it again. Probably a
Recommends would be in order then. But it might also be that some other
program relies on teTeX, anyway, for example to provide printed output
or pdf files for distribution of some information from a
database/managmente system/whatever.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer