Re: [MiKTeX] which part of MiKTeX depends on Qt4?

[Christian S. <cs...@mi...>]

instanton wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I found that some of the MiKTeX components are always checked
> (installed by default) when running MiKTeX install or updating MiKTeX
> packages, and I cannot see why it is necessary to do so for some of
> them. For example, miktex-cjkutils-bin-2.7 is always installed. Even
> if I remove this package by hand from the package manager, next time
> when I update MiKTeX it is installed again. The same applies to the
> package miktex-qt4-bin.

All binary packages are considered essential packages. That's why they
are checked by the update wizard.

> I am wondering which part of MiKTeX really
> depends on cjkutils and qt4. For cjkutils I am fairly sure that it
> can be safely removed without any side effect, even for CJK language
> users (I myself is Chinese and I never use gbklatex to process any
> tex file). For qt4, my first impression was that Yap might depend on
> it. However, when I tried removing miktex-qt4-bin from package
> manager and previewing dvi files with yap, everything seems to be
> working normally. So, would anyone please explain which part of
> MiKTeX is depending on qt4 or point me out how to inform the MiKTeX
> update program not to force installing such packages like
> miktex-cjkutils-bin-2.7 and miktex-qt4-bin?

At the moment there is no MiKTeX program which depends on the Qt4
libraries. This will change with MiKTeX 2.8: the auto-install dialog
will be written in Qt4.