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Bug 212392

Summary: x11-plugins/pidgin-latex-1.2.1 bump
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Hanno Zysik (geki) <h.mth>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Net-im project <net-im>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: 2007.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Hanno Zysik (geki) 2008-03-05 14:51:28 UTC
Summary says it.

I also had to merge app-text/dvipng since it is not shipped with app-text/tetex.
Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-05 15:44:34 UTC
I dont see any requirement for app-text/dvipng in the pidgin-latex code...
its in the tree as a copy of the 1.0 ebuild
Comment 2 Hanno Zysik (geki) 2008-03-05 16:01:06 UTC
Without dvipng the latex code, i.e. '$$ a(x) = b * x $$', is not transformed into a picture to represent the code in the chat window.
Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-05 16:08:35 UTC
the code uses three commands: latex, dvips and convert