Rob Canning wrote: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >> Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Rob Canning: >>> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>>> At least the Debian and Kubuntu packages of lilypond-data >>>> have the following requirement: Pre-Depends: tetex-bin | >>>> texlive-base >>>> >>>> I suppose that this is not true any longer and was never >>>> removed when lilypond switched away from using latex... There >>>> is, however, a build-time dependency on metafont (mf-nowin >>>> is called to create the feta font), which is in the >>>> texlive-base-bin package. >>> does this mean all this is needed is a modification to the >>> debian controlfile? >> Hopefully, yes. Lilypond does not have a run-time dependency on >> any LaTeX-distribution any more. I didn't see anything in the >> texlive-base package, which would be required for LilyPond, and a >> lilypond run after removing texlive also executed properly. Of >> course, that's not a guarantee that I didn't miss anything. As I >> said in my previous mail, compiling lilypond requires metafont, >> which is packaged in texlive-base-bin, and compiling the >> documentation requires texinfo, which uses pdfetex to create the >> PDF-version of the manuals. >> >> Cheers, Reinhold >> >> PS: I'm also cc'ing the packagers of the ubuntu package for >> lilypond in addition to the Debian packager. Please note the >> current run-time dependencies of Lilypond: >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL We >> switched away from using latex to create the output file a long >> while ago, so I suppose the pre-depends dependency on latex can >> be removed now. >> >> I also wonder if Metafont could/should be packaged separately >> from texlive? >> hi,
i just went to file a bug report against this on the debian site and found that one had already been filed on: feb. 08 2007 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410158 would it be possible for lilypond developers to look at this bug thread and perhaps wake it up a bit? :) this predepend error is a real blocker when it comes to including lilypond on any live debian or ubuntu based cd thanks rob _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
