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On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [ usual whining ] |
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> Forty-nine new packages?! |
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> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by |
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> the 'atril' pdf viewer. Why does it suddenly require texlive? |
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> There's a 'dvi' use flag which understandably would require tex stuff, |
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> but that flag is not set. |
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That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril maintainers. |
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It's since been fixed, and the 'synctex' feature which was pulling in |
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all of texlive is now optional. That fix has been committed, but not |
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yet released. Meanwhile, I've found and tested a patch that obviates |
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the need for installing texlive by making atril's synctex support |
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optional. |
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I've kludged an ebuild to remove the unconditional tex dependency and |
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disable the synctex feature. That semms to work fine. |
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I'd be happy to submit the patch and ebuild. I presume I should |
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change the ebuild to make the synctex feature enable/disable |
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conditional on a USE flag? It looks like there's already a 'synctex' |
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USE flag, so I guess that should be easy enough. |
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Grant |
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