On Tue, 16 Jun, 2020 at 13:02, Noeck <[email protected]> wrote:
By the way, one of several reasons to my own Frescobaldi was that the
version from the package repository depends on lilypond which depends
on
python2 as the only application on my system. (I know, I could
instruct
apt to ignore it and the lilypond installer also ships with python2).
IMO Frescobaldi package should not have lilypond as dependency, given
that a) you can have your own "self-contained" installations from
lilypond.org; b) lilypond package throws in a lot of dependencies
(TexLive is the biggest one).
Maybe packagers are worried that a new user might complain that
Frescobaldi can't do anything.
Perhaps Frescobaldi might check on startup if lilypond is installed and
warn the user if it's not. Looks like a viable solution on Linux and
Mac, but maybe not on Windows?
Ah, I found an old discussion on this topic:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/313
