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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> I need dev-texlive/texlive-pictures because it seems that's what |
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> provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I |
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> currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this |
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> particular programming language should be a must... Nothing in the |
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> use flags suggests a clue, for me anyway... |
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Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full |
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list gives |
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asyfig autoarea bardiag cachepic combinedgraphics circuitikz curve |
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curve2e curves dcpic diagmac2 doc-pictex dottex dot2texi dratex eepic |
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epspdf epspdfconversion fig4latex gnuplottex here hvfloat miniplot |
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pb-diagram petri-nets pgf-soroban pgfopts pgfplots picinpar pict2e |
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pictex pictex2 pinlabel pmgraph randbild schemabloc swimgraf texdraw |
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tikz-inet tikz-qtree tikz-timing tkz-doc tkz-linknodes tkz-tab |
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tufte-latex xypic collection-pictures |
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Ruby is a RDEPEND; if you are interested you certainly can try |
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Googling to find out which in the above list is the offender. One |
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that I recognize which requires a ruby runtime is the converter epspdf. |
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Cheers, |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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