On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:14AM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >Ken Brown wrote: >>On 8/1/2012 10:18 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> It can be argued that emacs-auctex should not pull in texlive. Most >>> users installing emacs-auctex will already have some flavor of tex in >>> place, and not necessarily the cygwin one (like the OP, or perhaps a >>> MikTex user). Plus, the error message is pretty intuitive and the >>> solution very simple, if latex is not there: "latex: no such command" >>> ==> "maybe I should install latex." Therefore, the expected aggregate >> >>There's more to it than that. emacs-auctex installs stuff needed for >>its preview feature in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/preview/. This won't >>be found by native texlive or by MikTeX. >> >>> frustration of users who installed auctex without latex available would >>> likely be far lower than the aggregate frustration of users wanting to >>> install auctex and getting saddled with an unwanted redundant texlive >>> distribution (for which there is no easy solution). >> >>Why is this so frustrating? It doesn't do any harm (except waste a >>small amount of disk space) to install Cygwin's texlive in parallel with >>native texlive. Just make sure the bin directory of the latter precedes >>/usr/bin in PATH. I myself have both installed, since I sometimes find >>it useful for testing purposes to be able to switch from one to the >>other (by temporarily changing PATH). > >I'd draw a parallel between the emacs-auctex's dependency on latex and libX11's >dependency on xorg-server: while xorg-server is certainly the preferred X >server for Cygwin, it's not the only option[0]. > >[0]: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00602.html
That is not the same thing at all. You can run xterm on your Windows box without an X server. It's not the same as suggesting that a package dependency which could theoretically be solved by installing a non-cygwin package should be accommodated or encouraged by a cygwin package. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
