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From: | Agustin Barto |
Subject: | Re: Octave for Windows HOWTO |
Date: | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:01:58 -0300 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) |
Quentin Spencer wrote:
I think I removed tetex from the package and everything seems to work just fine. After the installation the environment seems to be sane. I added a few packages after installation and it didn't complain.One thing that often needlessly shows up in octave's dependency chain is tetex. This is because octave needs makeinfo for its help documentation. makeinfo is a relatively small program that's usually packaged as a part of a bigger texinfo package, which requires tetex, which often requires a big font package. This accounted for a lot of extra downloading the last time I tried a cygwin installation. I would check to make sure tetex is not installed, and if you wanted to go one step further, you could remove everything included in the texinfo package except makeinfo. I think breaking up packages like this could be controversial with people who understand and use cygwin, but I think the intended audience of your windows installer would not care.
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