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Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies



Am Sonntag, den 16.05.2010, 19:19 +0100 schrieb Tony Houghton:
> George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
[..]
> > Well, xmlto does not pull any latex packages AFAICS, and my cowbuilder --login 
> > test says dice wrt build-dependencies drag:
[..]
> Looks like you're right. I uninstalled a load of tex packages and tried
> apt-get build-dep roxterm again and it didn't want to install anything
> beyond xmlto. But I'm sure when I ran apt-get build-dep roxterm recently
> it downloaded lots of tex packages, and there are no other likely
> looking candidates.

xmlto recommends dblatex or fop. For full format support you need one of
these toolchains. So you probably had your system configured to
automatically install recommended packages and dblatex pulls in several
TeX packages.

Regards, Daniel


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