It's probably more appropriate to talk about testing unstable packages here, but I didn't want to crosspost.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing gnuplot and dependencies Date: Thursday 14 February 2008 From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 30 January 2008 05:02:43 pm Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > <snip> > > |> Our texshop package doesn't depend on > |> TeX, for example, even though it relies on it. > | > | That would be handy for gnuplot as well. > | > |> I've been opposed to packages forcing people to install TeX just for doc > |> generation. I think such packages should build their docs separately > |> from the main build. In the case of gnuplot, though, I'm not 100% sure > |> that it doesn't use TeX: there are a few TeX-related terminal types > |> which may not be enabled if the package is built in the absence of TeX. > | > | I know a bit of gnuplot internals (I wrote a ConTeXt terminal for > | gnuplot, based on the one for LaTeX and metapost), and neither of > | those terminals depends on LaTeX (they are all compiled > | unconditianally into gnuplot). The conditionally compiled terminals > | include: X11, Aqua, Windows, wxt (depends on pangocairo, freetype > | etc.), png/jpg (depend on glib), etc. ... (I can ask on the gnuplot > | mailing list to confirm that if that would be of any help.) > | > | LaTeX terminal only outputs pure LaTeX (ascii) documents, without > | trying to compile them. Of course one cannot compile the resulting > | document without LaTeX (just as one cannot see SVG graphics without a > | proper viewer), but that's not something for which gnuplot should > | require TeX to be installed. The olny dependency I know about is > | compilation of PDF documentation. > | > | I can understand that xetex or other packages (which were not in > | teTeX, but are now in TeX Live) might require the proper TeX to be > | installed, but for gnuplot this is really not the case. > | > | Mojca > > Thanks for the information on gnuplot. I'll investigate how to get it > to build its docs separately and post back in this thread. I've just > taken over maintainership of LyX (lyx-qt), and I would like to modify it > not to enforce an explicit tetex dependency, either. > > OK, I've put package description files in my experimental area: http://www.finkdeveloper.net/svn/users/akh/experimental/ for a gnuplot[-nox] that builds docs that need tetex in a separate package. If people think it's OK, I'll issue an update (with revision 2) to the unstable tree. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter
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