BuildRequires for texlive stuff for F18 and beyond

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 13:52:39 UTC 2013


On 01/25/2013 09:42 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> jonathan.underwood wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> With the more fine grained texlive packaging in F>18 where tex(latex) is
>> provided by texlive-collection-latex I am finding that this is insufficient to
>> build most documents. I see two options in these cases:
>>
>> 1) Add BuildRequires; texlive-collection-latexextra  (nb.
>> texlive-collection-latexrecommended isn't usually sufficient)
>>
>> 2) Generate a list of specific style files [...]
>> and turn this into a list of specific BuildRequires: tex(foo.sty) lines.
>> [...]
>
>> What do folks think?
>
> FWIW, we didn't enjoy finding the magic tex(XXX) buildreq's to build
> systemtap docs during %build; not sure how confident we can be that
> they'll stay valid.  (1) sounds good to me.
>
>
> - FChE
>
The magic something(something_else) should still work. At least 
languages like Java, Perl, Ruby are using it. If it's not working, then 
it's a bug.

Marcela


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