X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=BgPBbhUTS4OEwKWb/vtRj8nnXjeMCQPLJU/yb8Wdp+n MXhaWNvQ6YNCPVck37rcNzTGD07sxwbOAhtOiKbazeIOwramZxS8iS8pu63ktXkV ytTdwIRxam7xKxbTrjgcC4NcY75rrZxO+DWVoheTL8/MOFXKNplj6j5ihHvj+r8k = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=pO1+4ZnzbvZsFFAIXezp+hpPMuo=; b=TwintWKE22sdDqGOJ ISp7RpPajPvT8EZzKirWWKzoXNx+ReciTmwSVpow2xyd+6a637v6/+grFcHoI36P ykSitMpJRBTOQ4CNkCP/JoLFO+zn2s/pZkQ/D7S6UfVDPPpb6E6/xMkTDpI4zJRA qOdiLGwmbcKbAgRRRrNLwkDOVI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <54564B57.2050907@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:18:47 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texinfo-5.2-3 References: <545631DD DOT 6060708 AT alice DOT it> In-Reply-To: <545631DD.6060708@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 11/2/2014 8:30 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: >> ...but the command 'makeinfo --pdf' won't work unless you install texinfo-tex > > Before the splitting I had installed the texinfo package and it did not require > any TeXLive packages. That was because I had decided not to require texlive, since so much of the functionality of texinfo was usable without it. But it was still the case with the old packaging that 'makeinfo --pdf' wouldn't work without a TeX installation. > Now If I try to install also texinfo-tex package, setup wants to install also > texlive packages which I don't need. The whole point of texinfo-tex is that it contains those programs from the old texinfo package that are useless without TeX. So naturally texinfo-tex requires texlive. > Indeed I already have TexLive installed as > monolithic distribution from TeXLive site. That's a completely different issue, not really related to texinfo. If there are Cygwin packages that require TeX in order to function, I think maintainers have to make them depend on texlive. Users who choose to install TeX from another source will find this annoying, but I don't see what I can do about that. Some Linux distros have mechanisms for dealing with this situation; I don't remember the details, but somehow it's possible to declare that you have installed something equivalent to a given package. But Cygwin's setup doesn't provide this feature. > It looks as if we have exchanged Perl with TeXLive... Not really. The issue with Perl was that it was included in a *default* Cygwin installation. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple