debian control file out of date? was: Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

[Rob Canning]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> Am Samstag, 23. August 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
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> > Rob Canning wrote:
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> > > but at the moment we have found that lilypond pulls texlive as a
> > > dependency
> > >       
> > How come? This used to be true a very long time ago, but there
> > are no requirements to have a TeX installation to be able to run
> > LilyPond. See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL
> > (for version 2.10) or
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Requireme
> > nts#Requirements (for version 2.11 and the coming version 2.12) for
> > information
> > on the relevant running requirements.
> >     
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> 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?
this would be great as if texlive-base is not a dep then lilypond should 
be small enough to fit on our live distro :)
cheers
rob

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