Ken Moffat wrote: > I'll be honest - TeX isn't something I use, but several of the > packages I'm about to update use it.
Ken, I don't have TeX on my system and I haven't used it in several years, but I think you don't know what it is. It is a typesetting written by Donald Knuth first released in 1978. I used to use it fairly extensively. Almost every mathematical formula formatting system is based on it. I have written several programs that create output in TeX. It does a very nice job. It can also create typeface glyphs with MetaFont. The implementation of TeX used to be teTeX. It is now TeX Live. Since I don't have a need for TeX any more, I haven't built it. I'm not opposed to removing it from BLFS if it is such a pain to build, but I don't see where it would be a vulnerability. Looking at http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html and http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/README, I'd recommend building with: --disable-xindy --disable-xetex --disable-xdvipdfmx --without-x I don't see a need for those. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
