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Hi all, |
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I'm about to post my LyX ebuild, which depends on the gv and Xaw3d ebuilds I |
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posted earlier. |
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There are however some design questions I'd like to clear up first: |
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LyX is a word processor based on LaTeX, a very good one IMHO. LyX can make |
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use of a great number of packages, but it can also do withuot them. Which of |
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the following package groups should the LyX ebuild depend on? |
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1. Absolutely necessary packages: x11 & gtk. |
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2. latex2e and a few other things, all of which are in tetex. Lyx can build |
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and run without these, but it'd be just a flashy text editor without any |
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output capabilities. |
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3. Important utilities like ghostscipt and gv, to use for viewing your output. |
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4. A _very_ large amount of third-party exporters, importers, converters and |
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viewers. Enables you to output in many formats etc. |
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5. A few misc tex packages like the one for Hebrew support (which I use) that |
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aren't included in tetex. |
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Which of these should the ebuild force (i.e. DEPEND on)? |
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An idea: building a lyx-base ebuild which only depends on x11/gtk and a lyx |
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ebuild which does nothing but depends on lyx-bsae, tetex and everything else. |
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Maybe with another in-between stage (i.e. a lyx-utils ebuild). |
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What do you think? |
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Another issue: whould Lyx go into app-text (as a latex frontend) or into |
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app-office (as a word processor)? |
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And finally: does anybody here except myself use LyX? Because I can't |
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understand how such a great distro cold live so long without this |
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all-important package. :-) |
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Dan |
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