Re: Heavy weight deps (was y scaling error)

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:35, pl...@pi... wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to remove these heavy dependancies? 
> It seems you are about as keen on emacs as I am and tetex is a monster.

They are not really dependencies, except in the sense that if the
autoconfigure script finds them installed it may try to use them.
Certainly once the program is built it cares nothing about either
emacs or TeX.

Or at least that's the intent.  I've had repeated troubles with the
emacs test (it tries to write to a system directory, which means 
normal users get an error message).  I'm not aware of any problems
with building on a system without TeX installed.  Then again, I'm
a TeX user so most of my machines have it :-) 

> I'm using gnuplot on ARM embedded. At the moment it's running on a full  
> debian image via nfs but when it goes onboard cruft will not be an option.

The major consideration in building a lightweight gnuplot executable
is which terminal drivers to include.  But the LaTeX terminals are pretty
small, so disabling them isn't likely to save any space unless you disable
PostScript support as well.  I made a chart 2 years ago for version 4.0
    http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/people/merritt/gnuplot/index.html#bloat
I should update it against current CVS.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt