How to avoid the installation of Latex

[Ryan Johnson]

On 11/06/2012 11:31 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
> I tried to avoid the installation of all the latex stuff because first It consumes a lot of time and second I use Miktex so there is no need for it.
> It also seems to be impossible to get rid of it after it was installed.
I had this problem a while back also. Turns out dependencies on latex 
lurk in the strangest packages. I ended up having to compute the 
transitive closure of package dependencies to find the culprits [1], 
which in my case included gnome-common, gtk-doc, and xmlto.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00242.html

Ryan


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