Re: [gentoo-dev] How to provide a recent TeXLive for Gentoo for our users?

[Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Alexis,

> The real reason is that we need to go through ~arch testing, fixing rev
> deps that might need update to their .tex files because the underlying
> packages they use has changed, adapt the deps for some potential
> changes, and then a stablereq round. 

I agree. This makes the situation not easier.

> [...]
>> This is not a very nice solution, but it works so far. One difficulty
>> is, that there is no 1:1 relation between the texlive distribution and
>> dev-texlive/* at the moment.
> There is a 1:1 relation.

A full installation of TeXLive installs packages, which are in
dev-tex/* and dev-texlive/* on gentoo.
On the other hand single packages are bundled some times.
Some programs/packages can be found in dev-tex/* and dev-texlive/*

I remember, that I last we had for example dev-tex/notoccite in the tree
and dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra including shipped the same, but newer
files.
This is what I meant with "no 1:1 relation"

>> How can we enable our users to run a recent TeXLive in a clean way?
> /usr/local/share/texmf has been supported by texlive on Gentoo from day
> one. You can use that. It's an overlay that takes precedence on
> anything else, so per the above, you lose all the QA & testing done
> behind the scenes if you use this.

And packages which depend on a specific LaTeX package will not install.
So the user has to provide a package.provided list, which is not so nice
to maintain for so many packages.

-- 
Best,
Jonas


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