X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Tony Richardson Subject: Re: octave-forge dependency? Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <20051206214756 DOT 94651 DOT qmail AT web51510 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com James R. Phillips yahoo.com> writes: > > The octave-forge legend command requires tetex-bin. This came up in: > > http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/4239 > > I promised to fix it, and I did. > > Everyone who complains about long downloads should get broadband ;) > > Everyone who complains about many files should get a bigger hard drive ;) I have a similar gripe regarding an octave dependency. I have an old laptop in which I keep a rather lean cygwin installation. I do use octave quite a bit, but I prefer to use it with the native-Windows version of gnuplot instead of the cygwin-X11 version. (Just set gnuplot_binary equal to "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/gnuplot4.00/bin/pgnuplot" or similar in the .octaverc file.) Because of the dependency on gnuplot and the gnuplot dependency on X11 upgrading octave is painful. (I don't have any of the X11 packages installed and I don't want to install them. Note also that X11 is required only through the gnuplot dependency, it isn't required for viewing images, octave-forge sets up IE as the default image viewer.) I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able to find gnuplot when the plot command is used.) Should there really be a dependency if only a subset of features requires a package? I'd prefer to see gnuplot removed from the octave dependency list. Of course then you'd have to deal with all the posts saying that the plot command in octave is broken. So I don't know what the best approach would be. How do others feel? Tony Richardson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/