On 02/04/2014 10:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > This ticket lists a whole lot of changes to how we build Tex from > source. I took it, because I don't (in general) like packages which > use their own static versions of system libs. But I now see that > the following are external references: GD, t1lib, ZZIPlib, TECkit, > Graphite, and also CLISP (not needed for the main part of Tex, if > I'm now reading the ticket correctly). > > Maybe Pierre spotted this, which is why he said he hadn't got time > before the package freeze - I was thinking "just change the > instructions for the existing package version". My mistake. > > And more generally, do we want these extra packages if they are > only used by TeX ? I have no idea about the vulnerabilities history > of any of them, nor how the TeX developers handle upstream changes > to these libs. > > Opinions, please.
I don't think it is necessary to add all those packages. Other than graphite2, I'd let Tex use its bundled versions, especially if they are not used by anything else in the book. -- "LEGO won't be ready for the average user until it comes pre-assembled, in a single unified look, and glued together so it doesn't come apart." -- Iranon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
