Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:50:27 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: teTex & libwww: what's the big idea? Message-ID: <20010630215026.A6979@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <15166.23309.714357.734351@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:04:45PM -0500 References: <106309767@toto.iv> <15166.23309.714357.734351@guru.mired.org>
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so, Mike Meyer shared this in my lifetime... > parv <parv_@yahoo.com> types: > > so i was installing html2ps, thus teTex and i noticed that it > > "lib-depends" on libwww... now why would a text processing software > > need (to care about) libwww? > > If you read the html2ps man page, you can feed it a URL to print. It > uses libwww to fetch the pages in that case. > > <mike i knew as soon as i send the message that people would take "it" for "html2ps" instead of "teTex" ... i should have explicitly used the word "teTex" instead of "it" as in... ...i noticed that teTex "lib-depends" on libwww... now why would teTex need (to care about) libwww? i am perfectly okay if html2ps depends on the libwww and it does "BUILD_DEPENDS" on p5-libwww. so my beef is w/ teTex needing libwww not w/ html2ps needing it. -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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