On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:43:43PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Küster wrote: > > > It's completely inacceptable for pdftex to acquire a dependency on gtk > > > or qt. If using plain libpoppler turns out to be impossible, we'd > > > > Nearly 1000 packages in sid depend on glib, it's not that it's a completely > > obscure lib causing major problems. Please elaborate why that is "completely > > unacceptable". > > TeX is a system targetted as well at server systems as at user systems. > We already get complaints that it requires some X libs. Therefore I > don't think it would server our users, at least this part of our users, > to add in glib and libgtk.
It's only about glib, not gtk. glib is a rather lightweight dependency, compared to the size of tetex-bin and its dependency chain. I doubt anybody will complain. Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
