Re: live cd-with lilypondhttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 23. August 2008 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:
> Rob Canning wrote:
> > 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.

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. It seems 
that there is no check in configure and no mention in the INSTALL page...

Cheers,
Reinhold


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