Mail Archives: cygwin/2013/02/06/09:11:29
On 2/6/2013 4:52 AM, jeremycraven wrote:
>
> I did not change anything in the "Publishing" section, so all were at
> default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies
Nothing from TeX Live is installed by default. So everything you
installed came from dependencies.
> (see end of this post as well). Elsewhere as far as I remember I added all
> of X11, python, and editors, rxvt , tcsh shell, and Imagemagick. Of those
> the only mildly suspicious one is the tex wysiwyg editor.
I assume you're talking about lyx. Take a look at the setup.ini file in
your Cygwin download directory, and you'll see that lyx requires quite a
few texlive-collection-* packages. It probably shouldn't require so
many, but this was a decision made by the lyx maintainer (who just
resigned as maintainer).
> I seem to have ended up with your "standard" install (according to the
> texlive advice that you pointed me to) when I look at the things in
> publishing marked "KEEP" and referring to "texlive" (e.g. have the
> ...latexrecommended one). (Is there any other way to know what non standard
> items one chose in the future?).
After you select packages and click "Next", setup.exe will pop up a
dialogue box warning you if there are dependencies that you need to
install. For each one, it will tell you which package(s) it depends on.
> The key timings in the full log file are:
> 13:23 started whole process
> 15:00 postinstall started
> 15:12-15:56 texlive things
> 16:08-16:56 more texlive things
> 17:00 finished
>
> so I make it 90 mins out of 210 mins were texlive.
>
> Maybe that is as it should be, but is this what would happen if I had not
> touched the "default" install settings?
No, it would have been much faster. For one thing, you wouldn't have
installed anything from TeX Live.
> I think like others, I nearly lost faith that my computer was still working
> - it was only because I knew cygwin was so valuable to me that I persevered.
> In a first time try I might well have given up.
A user installing Cygwin for the first time would be well advised to
start by accepting all the defaults.
> (The upside of this is I can try and see if this latex install copes on a
> file someone sent me where my ubuntu one failed!)
>
> I notice the following lines near the top of the log files:
>
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive: Selecting version
> 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-basic:
> Selecting version 20120628-2 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-documentation-base: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-fontsextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-fontsrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontutils:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-genericrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-htmlxml:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latex:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-latexextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency
> texlive-collection-latexrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for
> installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-pictures:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-science:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
> 2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-texinfo:
> Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
>
> I don't know if that indicates extra dependencies beyond the default, and if
> so I wonder what triggered them.
Most or all of these were triggered by lyx.
> I can send you the log files if you suggest where best to send them.
I don't need to see them unless there are error messages involving
texlive postinstall scripts.
Ken
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