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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:29:49PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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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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Well, have it depend on 1, 2 and 3. We want the base install of our packages |
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to be fully-functional, and tetex and ghostscript and a postscript viewer would |
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be needed to actually use Lyx for anything useful. |
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I'm hoping that the things in 4 and 5 can be built as separate packages rather |
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than being included in the main Lyx package. If this is possible, that's what |
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I would recommend as well. |
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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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A good solution, since it gives our users more flexibility. |
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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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I'd put it in app-text. |
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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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Well, that's why we're glad that you're around :)) |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |