On 31/07/2012 6:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 7/30/2012 1:33 AM, Wynfield Henman wrote:
I use the in-the-wild, 'texlive 2012' distribution, which I like to
tinker with and customize.
Due to a, what I believe is a dependency by auctex on texlive for some
reason, I keep getting a list of about 10 texlive related packages
automatically appended to what I want to install and I have to keep
manually [skip] them.
I would like to know some efficient way I could make that go away and
just have setup ignore texlive or have it see that I have it already,
but that it's just not a cygwin package, but user installed.
setup.exe only knows about Cygwin packages. You might be able to edit
/etc/setup/installed.db to trick setup.exe into thinking that you've
installed Cygwin's texlive.
Of course, then it will try to upgrade the non-existent package(s),
potentially leading to problems down the road...
Seriously, though, there are some surprising dependencies on texlive
right now (usually via dblatex), and it's a big enough package set
(several hundred MB download) that it's no surprise lots of people want
to avoid its being pulled in every other time they run setup.
I don't suppose there's an easy refactoring that could help avoid this
problem?
Ryan
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