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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr>, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: RFP: texmf
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:14:13 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
> But I really don't know, there were complaints on the list.  Looking
> at it now, it seems to me that both problems would be fixed by adding
> these to tetex-beta/bin's setup.hint:
>
>     requires: ash bash cygwin libncurses5 jpeg libpng tiff ncurses sed
>     termcap texmf-base zlib

Is bash really a requirement? sh==ash I understand, but I don't see why
bash is needed. (ie what about a user using tcsh?)

> a good idea in any case, but I don't know if there are other problems,
> or what the idea is with the ncurses5/6 libs.

Depend on libncurses6 - which is what the recompiled version will need.

> Maybe not.  But it would be nice if all packages would `just work'
> after running setup.exe, which shouldn't be so hard to achieve with
> tetex?

Thats the goal :}.

Rob