Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

[Sjors G. <sj...@sj...>]

Op 29-06-12 17:38, Alexander Hansen schreef:
> On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote:
>> I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since its being deprecated for ginstall-info upstream so maybe we need to look at debs of debs?  I'll re-work debianutils today and split it up I should be able to make it 2 pkgs and break out po4a I did it for the new dpkg already. BTW po4a is the po translator Debian now uses on all essentials.  
>>
> 
> Meh.  If dpkg upstream is using TeX instead of the old install-info
> that's going to be really painful for our purposes.  _They_ can do that
> since they're fundamentally a provider of prebuilt binaries, and aren't
> forcing all of _their_ users to install TeX.
> 
> I wonder if there's a lighter-weight option we can use here...

I'll check how much of TexInfo is actually needed to get just the
ginstall-info binary.

Sjors