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Re: update: tetex 2.0.2-15
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski writes:
>
> > Well, you could require both (the new XFree86-base is a dummy package,
>
> Ok, that sounds like an acceptable option. I've fixed the xorg name
> and added XFree86-base.
>
> > P.S. Does it really require xorg-x11-base, or xorg-x11-bin-dlls?
>
> I just mimicked ghostscript-x11. xorg-x11-bin-dlls will satisfy
> cygcheck, but I guess people who install tetex-x11 want to say xdvi,
> so that should just work.
>
> Jan.
Hmm, in this particular case it might be a valid choice (you can't run
tetex-x11 without X, can you?). Some other packages (notably xemacs)
contain way too many dependencies, more than are needed for normal
operation.
Note, though, that they would still need to *run* X before xdvi will work.
0:-)
Igor
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