latex not working in F20: "I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!"

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:58:02AM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:47:02 +0200, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'm BuildRequiring the following:
> > 
> >   BuildRequires:  texlive-texconfig, texlive-latex-bin-bin, texlive-dvips-bin
> >   BuildRequires:  texlive-metafont-bin, texlive-cm, texlive-ec
> >   BuildRequires:  texlive-preprint, texlive-cm-super, ghostscript
> >   BuildRequires:  texlive-pdftex-bin
> > 
> > which works in Fedora 19, doesn't work in Fedora 20.
> 
> This is ugly, I do not have an answer for F-20 (GDB PDFs build there fine),
> just there is already an open Bug for LaTeX PDF build BuildRequires:
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919891

Ugly indeed.  No response at all from the maintainers of texlive in
4-5 months ...

I think it may be better just to disable PDF doc generation in
this package.

Thanks,

Rich.

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