XFCE desktop needs ... tetex ?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 06/06/07, Ian Burrell <ianburrell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org> wrote:
> > ---> Package xfprint.i386 0:4.4.1-1.fc7 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: a2ps for package: xfprint
> > ---> Package a2ps.i386 0:4.13b-65.fc7 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: groff-perl for package: a2ps
> > --> Processing Dependency: tetex-latex for package: a2ps
> > --> Processing Dependency: texinfo-tex for package: a2ps
> > --> Processing Dependency: tetex-fonts for package: a2ps
> > --> Processing Dependency: psutils for package: a2ps
> > --> Processing Dependency: tetex-dvips for package: a2ps
> >
> > My answer is N here, of course. Can't understand why I need install
> > tetex for XFCE desktop :(
> >
> > I do the also groupinstall for Gnome desktop and I don't see tetex.
> >
> > Maybe need some tunings for comps.xml & group definition ?
> >
>
> I trimmed down the output from yum to show the dependency chain.
> xfprint requires a2ps which requires tetex.

Hm. I wonder if xfprint could be patched to use enscript instead of
a2ps - enscript doesn't have such dependencies.