Jose' Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:52, Stephen Harris wrote:
SH: The Docbook topic comes up occasionally. Chris Karakas
has done quite a bit of work producing with LyX, SGML, and
Latex. http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ There is quite
a bit involved to get all the packages working together IMO.
Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready to
go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux distributions.
You know best! Is there an objective method used in determining
if Gnome or KDE, Nedit or LyX, goes into the primary distribution
while the other contender is placed into extras? I was thinking if
statistics were kept on "yum install foo" downloads (not who did it)
that the frequency of download would be an objective measure. Maybe
that would only work if both similar programs started in extras.
I gave the Chris Karakas instructions a try, but it became hard
to obtain the packages or the right versions, maybe that was on
Cygwin; it was harder than following Michael Gertz instuctions!
I think yum or other programs like it, is the single best reason
to use Linux rather than Windows. I can remember if you wanted to
install a new program which would take 10 minutes, finding and
installing all the dependencies could take an hour, even if they
were listed beforehand and I don't think they were always listed.
Maybe I should have used the word default rather than primary.
My final question. I was reading about fontconfig because of
installing the Bakoma fonts which are in zip format into Cygwin.
(This is something easy to do in Windows, install fonts.)
I read there is a dependency to freetype. The freetype page
mentions there is a new May31,06 version of KDE which doesn't
have security problems because it uses fontconfig without
freetype. Also it mentions an rpm freetype patch package suitable
for using with Cygwin's rpm package. So does yum or rpm, when it
installs fonts, write to those associated .conf files (fc-cache)?
Best regards,
--
Stephen
Topic ontology recapitulates entropic phylogeny.
