[tex-live] latex tpm dependencies

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On 10/10/06, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> So far, the dependencies have mostly been done at the collection level.
> Coarse-grained but basically effective, for current purposes.
Thanks. I'll look into collections

> I highly doubt there is any automatic way to add them.  It certainly
> does not suffice to grep for \RequirePackage.  There is also
> \usepackage, package options which can imply other packages, conditional
> loading, macro redefinitions, you name it.  Not feasible.
OK. Now I realize the problem is larger than I imagined.

> I am guessing from your msg that gentoo is choosing to create a gentoo
> package from each TL package (hundreds and hundreds of them).  Is that
> right?  I advise against it, precisely because of this dependency
> problem, among others.  Debian's method of creating a Debian package
> from each collection seemed to work out ok?
Actually it's my effort trying to package texlive for gentoo. I'll
check the Debian way. Thanks for suggestions.

-- 
Duy