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Re: TeX and Scribus

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Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:14:24 +0000, JohnF wrote:
>> They should probably just move teTeX to extras/ or pasture/, and let
>> users install tl themselves.
> 
> I agree that texlive is a useful piece of software and that it can be 
> really useful to complement a Slackware installation with texlive.
> 
> However, I think it would be a horrible bad idea to remove tetex without 
> including a full featured texlive or other replacement. Other software 
> have dependencies upon tetex, read section 22 in the slackbuild FAQ at 
> https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
> 
> If I remember right a2ps depends upon tetex and there are other pieces of 
> software which depends upon a2ps. 

a2ps and various convert conversions, etc, use ghostscript,
but that can be installed independently of the teTeX package.
I'm not sure if slackware puts ghostscript in the a-series,
or somewhere besides the teTeX series. It would be a mistake
for them to put ghostscript in the teTeX series because, as
you say, lots of programs use ghostscript. But there are far,
far fewer explicit teTeX/(La)TeX dependencies. I think I've
occasionally seen documentation distributed as (La)TeX source,
and then you do need (La)TeX to format it more readably.
But that's about it, I believe.

> I think that tetex should stay in Slackware. Those compressed packages 
> occupies no more than 50 MB on your installation DVD and they will take 
> just as much space if you move them to /extra.
> 
> But feel free to remove tetex from your systems if you so like. The 
> Slackware package management will not keep track of any dependencies so 
> it will let you do so. I see no need to try that myself, maybe a2ps will 
> no longer be fully functional, maybe XFCE will not be fully functional 
> after removing tetex.
> regards Henrik

-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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    Re: TeX and Scribus Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 07:25 +0000
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        Re: TeX and Scribus JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-06 07:14 +0000
          Re: TeX and Scribus Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-06 18:26 +0000
            Re: TeX and Scribus W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net> - 2016-04-06 20:47 +0000
            Re: TeX and Scribus JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 00:11 +0000
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    Re: TeX and Scribus Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@deletethis.AcadiaU.ca> - 2016-04-05 21:35 -0300
      Re: TeX and Scribus Martha Adams <mhada@verizon.net> - 2016-04-06 21:17 -0400
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