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Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp:


From: Mats Bengtsson
Subject: Re: debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:33:39 +0200
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Francisco Vila wrote:

Isn't this exactly what the "recommends: " field in .deb files is
for?  lilypond-book should recommend latex, docbook, texinfo, and
www-browser.

it does need latex, it does not need docbook (I wonder), it does not
need www-browser. So we have to levels of recommendness:

latex is recommended if you want to produce tex files, this is what
I'd call a dependance.
Well, it is only recommended if you want to use lilypond-book
in conjunction with latex to produce a document. In that
case, it's pretty obvious to anybody that you need a tex
distribution anyway. However, for the 99% of the users who
don't use lilypond-book or only use it with other formats,
there's no dependence. Of course, if you are strict and
say that you have a dependence even if it's only via a
rarely used utility script, then there's a dependency.

  /Mats




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