I was wondering if there were plans to abandon Texlive packages (as well as Korganizer and KonsoleKalendar) as dependencies/recommends/suggests in the Debian and Ubuntu packages.
I believe I mentioned this before months ago but can't remember if anything was to be done about it. Current details on the deb packages suggest nothing was done.
Texlive and the other packages are native to KDE but not Gnome and other desktops, and you really notice it when you install Gnumed under one of them.
On my 'Karmic' Installation:
125 new packages to be installed
688 MB of diskspace to be used 304 MB to be downloaded
On my Debian 'Squeeze' installation:
88 new packages to be installed 834MB diskspace to be used 474MB of downloads
Your results may vary but you get the idea. The size of the required download is unbelievably large when you consider that the GNUmed, PostgreSQL and Python packages (the main GNUmed requirements) only amount to a 60-80MB download at the most. What's even sillier is that I couldn't get Korganizer or KonsoleKalendar to work once installed.
Since Gnome is the default for both Ubuntu and Debian you know people will notice. Such a download is obviously prohibitive for using Gnumed and doesn't make it look good.