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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:33:03
Message-Id: p2s9ec849b41004260031l3271d137jf799ff55879a953b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xypic wants ruby? by Willie Wong
1 On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
3
4 >> provides xy-pic.  Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby?
5 >
6 > Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full
7 > list gives
8 >
9 >  asyfig autoarea bardiag cachepic combinedgraphics circuitikz curve
10 > curve2e curves dcpic diagmac2 doc-pictex dottex dot2texi dratex eepic
11 > epspdf epspdfconversion fig4latex gnuplottex here hvfloat miniplot
12 > pb-diagram petri-nets pgf-soroban pgfopts pgfplots picinpar pict2e
13 > pictex pictex2 pinlabel pmgraph randbild schemabloc swimgraf texdraw
14 > tikz-inet tikz-qtree tikz-timing tkz-doc tkz-linknodes tkz-tab
15 > tufte-latex xypic collection-pictures
16 >
17 > Ruby is a RDEPEND; if you are interested you certainly can try
18 > Googling to find out which in the above list is the offender. One
19 > that I recognize which requires a ruby runtime is the converter epspdf.
20 >
21 OK. I understand. Latex is a world of is own...
22
23 Thanks.
24
25 Jorge