On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> sys-apps/texinfo installs scripts texi2dvi, texi2pdf etc. which are
> not functional because the necessary dependencies on TeX are missing.
>
> Therefore aballier and myself propose to introduce a new-style virtual
> which will pull in the necessary dependencies:
>   - texi2dvi script -> sys-apps/texinfo
>   - working TeX installation -> virtual/latex-base
>   - texinfo.tex -> dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo, or one of the
>     monolithic TeX packages
>
> See bug 230473 [1] for more details.
>
> If there are no major objections, I'll add the new virtual next week.
This is a very good idea. Recently, several ebuilds mentioned in the bug 
#222501 have replaced the dependence on virtual/tetex by a rather 
complicated

virtual/latex-base
|| ( dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo app-text/tetex app-text/ptex )

It is much easier and cleaner to have virtual/texinfo here (I hope the 
maintainers of these ebuilds will find time and energy to edit them once 
more, and to incorporate virtual/texinfo).

Andrey
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