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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ken Brown 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.
> 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.
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