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Re: RFP: texmf
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From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.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