R -> texlive -> libpoppler

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On 10/01/2010 07:04 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> dikshie wrote:
> 
>> anyone aware about libpoppler issue in rawhide?
> 
> Yes, a new poppler landed recently, and rebuilds are proceeding.  One of 
> those just done recently was texlive.
> 
> -- Rex
> 
> 

 Is there any way to decouple the bulk of R from requiring texlive [1]?
It seems bizarre that a stats package has a deep coupling with a
typesetting language .. ;-)

  is there any way to make an R-reports or R-docs package to at least
isolate this coupling ?



 [1] Some of us are using different tex than the fedora texlive (at
least on f13 the texlive is too out of date (missing biblatex for example).