octave-forge dependency?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:14:13AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>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.

makeinfo is in the texinfo package not the TeX package.

cgf

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