Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> writes: > On May 14, 2014, at 12:56 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> writes: >> >>>> On May 13, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi <davide.lie...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> @Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user >>>> to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this >>>> in [2]. >>>> >>>> I don't think it asks for XQuartz. Rather, installing Lilypond >>>> displays the following message: >>>> >>>> lilypond: A LaTeX distribution is required to install. >>> >>> Out of curiosity, why is a LaTeX distribution required? Lilypond >>> doesn’t use LaTeX. >> >> lilypond-book can produce LaTeX input which is at least required for >> compiling LilyPond's documentation. > > Ah. Thanks.
It's a compile-time dependency, but my guess would be that making it just a recommendation for the binary package would be sufficient. If one really wants to nitpick, one could make a separate binary package for lilypond-book and let that package demand "at least one" of the tools required for its various backends (HTML, Texinfo, LaTeX, probably something else). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
