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Subject:	Re: Unwanted texlive invasion
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I don't agree.  The solution should not be to install an unnecessary
package and waste space and complicate by having to check order in the
PATH variable.

It would be better that a.) installation scripts check for the
existence of the necessary commands first and not brute force the
installation or warning that the cygwin port of it be installed.

It may also be desirable, to have setup use a list of packages to NOT
install, regardless of any dependencies.  Maintaining that list would
be the site's administistrator's task.

I also have the problem of setup always trying to install texlive,
when I already have the native version, and it's a pain to have to
continually go in and select [skip] for each one and the select yes I
don't want these, every time I want to update other packages.


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> On 9/25/2012 11:41 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to upgrade a set of existing cygwin packages, and texlive
>> suddenly wants to install itself, apparently due to a new dependency
>> from gnuplot. Is this really necessary?
>
>
> This dependency is created by cygport.  It's of course up to the gnuplot
> maintainer (Volker Zell) whether or not he wants to override it, but I can
> explain the rationale.  gnuplot installs some files into
> /usr/share/texmf-dist.  To make it possible for tex to find those files, the
> gnuplot postinstall script runs /usr/bin/mktexlsr.  The latter is provided
> by texlive-collection-basic, so this package is required by gnuplot.
>
> Maybe you should just bite the bullet and install texlive.  It won't
> interfere in any way with your native TeX Live installation, as long as you
> put the bin directory for the latter first in your path.
>
> Ken
>
>
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