[gentoo-dev] Upcoming LyX ebuild - design questions

[Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>]

Hi all,

I'm about to post my LyX ebuild, which depends on the gv and Xaw3d ebuilds I 
posted earlier.

There are however some design questions I'd like to clear up first:

LyX is a word processor based on LaTeX, a very good one IMHO. LyX can make 
use of a great number of packages, but it can also do withuot them. Which of 
the following package groups should the LyX ebuild depend on?

1. Absolutely necessary packages: x11 & gtk.
2. latex2e and a few other things, all of which are in tetex. Lyx can build 
and run without these, but it'd be just a flashy text editor without any 
output capabilities.
3. Important utilities like ghostscipt and gv, to use for viewing your output.
4. A _very_ large amount of third-party exporters, importers, converters and 
viewers. Enables you to output in many formats etc.
5. A few misc tex packages like the one for Hebrew support (which I use) that 
aren't included in tetex.

Which of these should the ebuild force (i.e. DEPEND on)?

An idea: building a lyx-base ebuild which only depends on x11/gtk and a lyx 
ebuild which does nothing but depends on lyx-bsae, tetex and everything else. 
Maybe with another in-between stage (i.e. a lyx-utils ebuild).

What do you think?

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Another issue: whould Lyx go into app-text (as a latex frontend) or into 
app-office (as a word processor)?

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And finally: does anybody here except myself use LyX? Because I can't 
understand how such a great distro cold live so long without this 
all-important package. :-)



Dan