On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:05:48PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question is this: why does gnuplot depend on tetex? The > simple answer, apparently, is "so that fink can build and install > the documentation, which comes as LaTeX source." > > I have a transient (i.e., dialup) 56K connection to the internet, > and a non-tetex implementation of LaTeX, the combination of which > makes that dependency very inconvenient.
Is this also a dependency for the binary (.deb) version of gnuplot? If so I would say this is a bug. Debian packages, at least, have the concept of 'build-depends', which are only used for building the software, as opposed to 'depends', which are needed for using the software. This also allows library packages to be split into the binary libraries and the header files, which while sometimes annoying (oh, i needed that -dev package too, doh.) is good from the space-saving perspective. Perhaps Fink could benefit from a similar option. I don't know anything about the inner workings of Fink, so if it already has this kind of option, my apologies. -- =Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley> Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
