Hi John, On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:49, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: >> Hello guys, >> since I'm going to update debian matplotlib pkg to 0.98.5 I'd like to >> know how much dvipng lib is needed to let matplotlib work. > > It's strictly optional, for the "usetex" mode, which is not turned on > by default. Our native mathtext is good enough for most use cases, > and those who want tex rendering can "apt-get install dvipng"
Thanks for the quick reply! I moved dvipng to Suggests (so that it remains a trace of it in the package, for the users who want to install it manually): the net result would be much less packages to download (and install) to use mpl on Debian/Ubuntu. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
