Re: Texlive-texmf

[Eric Bavier]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:04:14 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:41:44 +0100
> > address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> >  
> >> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> >>   
> >> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:    
> >> >> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:    
> >> >> > This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the
> >> >> > internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake,
> >> >> > since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion.
> >> >> > So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days.    
> >> >> OK.    
> >> >
> >> > Well, in the end this is not so easily possible.
> >> >
> >> > gnuplot depends on texlive-bin as a native-input. I replaced this by
> >> > texlive-minimal, but I think the native input can be dropped completely. 
> >> >    
> >> 
> >> Not sure.  Eric added the dependency on TeX Live in 97003b5c.
> >> Eric, WDYT?  
> >
> > Gnuplot looks for some binaries to determine whether and where to
> > install some latex sty files.  As long as those are still installed with
> > texlive-minimal, that should be fine.  I used texlive-bin in order to
> > remove the heavyweight texlive dependency.  
> 
> Would Gnuplot’s own sty files still be installed if we remove the
> dependency?

gnuplot's configure script will refuse to install the latex cfg for the
epslatex terminal unless those binaries are found.  This seems like an
artificial limitation, and could probably be patched out.

> Or are they redundant with what TeX Live provides?

They don't seem redundant, but I honestly don't know exactly what they
are used for.

`~Eric