On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? > > Probably because it installs a heck lot more than just xypic? The full > list gives > > asyfig autoarea bardiag cachepic combinedgraphics circuitikz curve > curve2e curves dcpic diagmac2 doc-pictex dottex dot2texi dratex eepic > epspdf epspdfconversion fig4latex gnuplottex here hvfloat miniplot > pb-diagram petri-nets pgf-soroban pgfopts pgfplots picinpar pict2e > pictex pictex2 pinlabel pmgraph randbild schemabloc swimgraf texdraw > tikz-inet tikz-qtree tikz-timing tkz-doc tkz-linknodes tkz-tab > tufte-latex xypic collection-pictures > > Ruby is a RDEPEND; if you are interested you certainly can try > Googling to find out which in the above list is the offender. One > that I recognize which requires a ruby runtime is the converter epspdf. > OK. I understand. Latex is a world of is own... Thanks. Jorge
