where to make packaging suggestions? the monstrosity that is "xmlto"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 10 May 2010, Luis Paulo wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >  in the process of setting up my 10.04 box for
> > typesetting/publishing, and went to install the "xmlto" package --
> > sadly, it insists on dragging in dozens and dozens of "tex"-related
> > packages and requiring 757MB of extra disk space.  (...)
> >
>
> Are those tex-related recommend packages? Maybe you may avoid them using
>
>  --no-install-recommends
>            Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for
> installing. Configuration Item:
>            APT::Install-Recommends.
> (see man apt-get)
>
> I can, but I'm still using 9.10
> $ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xmlto

  ah, quite right, that removes all the tex-related junk.  i'm still
keen on a "desktop publishing" task, though.  i'll give that some more
thought.

rday
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