F9 Alpha spinning

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 21:17:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:34 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:29:44PM -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> > 2008/1/25 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com>:
> > > Here are some details on the current live bits for F9 Alpha.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > >
> > > Below is a diff between the F8-Live-i686 and F9-Alpha-Live-i686 Desktop spins.
> > >
> > 
> > > removed package evince: 3452782
> > 
> > I wonder why evince is removed from the Desktop spin, an oversight?
> 
> It is because for dvi support it drags in most of texlive to have the
> fonts generated. Work is underway to reduce the dependency amount, but I
> doubt this will be enough.

evince should not drag in anything beyond kpathsea, really. All that
needs to happen is top drop the kpathsea -> texlive requires.




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