octave-forge dependency?

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Dec-2005, Charles Wilson wrote:

| Why does package octave-forge depend on tetex-bin?  As far as I can 
| tell, octave-forge contains .oct and .m files, and few text and info 
| files -- nothing there should need TeX.  I use MikTeX so I don't want to 
| have cygwin-TeX installed, but this octave-forge dependency pulls in the 
| whole mess for no good reason...

Octave uses makeinfo to format docstrings.

jwe

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