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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper dependencies for TeX related ebuilds
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:46:39
Message-Id: 20180326144626.2453e6d6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proper dependencies for TeX related ebuilds by Jonas Stein
1 On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:40:12 +0200
2 Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > I just read
7 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/625908#c5
8 > and saw that we do not have a good documentation on this and many
9 > packages in the tree ship with strange tex dependencies.
10 >
11 > I started a documentation on our wiki
12 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Notes_on_TeX_related_ebuilds
13
14 Well, your example (inkscape) is wrong: dep on tl-core is *never*
15 sufficient and certainly does not provide a working latex command. First
16 step to get it right is to use the already existing virtuals
17 (virtual/{la,}tex-base).