XFCE desktop needs ... tetex ?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 15/06/07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > 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.
>
> What's wrong with using LaTeX for printing? It's one of the best Free Software
> PostScript generators out there.

Absolutely nothing :) But since the OP felt that the dependencies of
xfprint were gratutitous, I wondered if equivalent functionality was
provided by a program with smaller dependencies. Seems not.