Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Am Montag, 25. August 2008 schrieb Rob Canning: >> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: >>> At least the Debian and Kubuntu packages of lilypond-data have >>> the following requirement: Pre-Depends: tetex-bin | >>> texlive-base >>> >>> I suppose that this is not true any longer and was never >>> removed when lilypond switched away from using latex... There >>> is, however, a build-time dependency on metafont (mf-nowin is >>> called to create the feta font), which is in the >>> texlive-base-bin package. >> does this mean all this is needed is a modification to the debian >> controlfile? > > Hopefully, yes. Lilypond does not have a run-time dependency on any > LaTeX-distribution any more. I didn't see anything in the > texlive-base package, which would be required for LilyPond, and a > lilypond run after removing texlive also executed properly. Of > course, that's not a guarantee that I didn't miss anything. As I > said in my previous mail, compiling lilypond requires metafont, > which is packaged in texlive-base-bin, and compiling the > documentation requires texinfo, which uses pdfetex to create the > PDF-version of the manuals. > > Cheers, Reinhold > > PS: I'm also cc'ing the packagers of the ubuntu package for > lilypond in addition to the Debian packager. Please note the > current run-time dependencies of Lilypond: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL We > switched away from using latex to create the output file a long > while ago, so I suppose the pre-depends dependency on latex can be > removed now. > > I also wonder if Metafont could/should be packaged separately from > texlive? > hi,
i just went to file a bug report against this on the debian site and found that one had already been filed on: feb. 08 2007 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410158 would it be possible for lilypond developers to look at this bug thread and perhaps wake it up a bit? :) this predepend error is a real blocker when it comes to including lilypond on any live debian or ubuntu based cd thanks, rob _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
