Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming LyX ebuild - design questions

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:29:49PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:

> 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.

Well, have it depend on 1, 2 and 3.  We want the base install of our packages
to be fully-functional, and tetex and ghostscript and a postscript viewer would
be needed to actually use Lyx for anything useful.

I'm hoping that the things in 4 and 5 can be built as separate packages rather
than being included in the main Lyx package.  If this is possible, that's what
I would recommend as well.

> 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?

A good solution, since it gives our users more flexibility.

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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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I'd put it in app-text.

> 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. :-)

Well, that's why we're glad that you're around :))

Best Regards,

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