Re: [matplotlib-devel] how much is dvipng needed?

Hi John,

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:49, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>> since I'm going to update debian matplotlib pkg to 0.98.5 I'd like to
>> know how much dvipng lib is needed to let matplotlib work.
>
> It's strictly optional, for the "usetex" mode, which is not turned on
> by default.  Our native mathtext is good enough for most use cases,
> and those who want tex rendering can "apt-get install dvipng"

Thanks for the quick reply! I moved dvipng to Suggests (so that it
remains a trace of it in the package, for the users who want to
install it manually): the net result would be much less packages to
download (and install) to use mpl on Debian/Ubuntu.

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
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