On 10/01/2010 09:17 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 10/01/2010 10:54 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> On 10/01/2010 06:40 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >>> >>> Is there any way to decouple the bulk of R from requiring texlive [1]? >>> It seems bizarre that a stats package has a deep coupling with a >>> typesetting language .. ;-) >>> >>> is there any way to make an R-reports or R-docs package to at least >>> isolate this coupling ? >>> >>> >>> >>> [1] Some of us are using different tex than the fedora texlive (at >>> least on f13 the texlive is too out of date (missing biblatex for example). >> >> R uses latex for documentation. Not sure if there is a sensible split that >> would make it optional. It should be able to require tex(latex) I believe >> for >> generic latex support. >> >> CC'ing R-owner (spot). >> > > Unfortunately I install texive from upstream and there is no rpm ... > via tlmgr.
You could provide your own stub rpm the provided it. Unfortunately, looks like R-devel currently requires tetex-latex, that should get fixed. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test