Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Hello, > > Daniel Meißner via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes: > [...] >> I can provide a patch if desired to add texlive-xstring and >> texlive-bigfoot to texlive-acronym’s (propagated-)inputs. The suffix >> package appears to be bundled with texlive-bigfoot. Do we want to >> unbundle it or simply add texlive-bigfoot to the (propagated-)inputs? > > We use dependencies specified in TeX Live itself (as in "texlive.tlpdb" > file), for sanity reasons. There are 4000+ packages; I think it is not > reasonable to grep through their output to find the unspecified > dependencies. It will also be terrible when using some updater, now this > tool can remove propagated inputs. > > Most dependencies issues are resolved installing collections of > packages, such as `texlive-collection-latexrecommended'. As a data > point, I only resolve dependencies "manually" when they would otherwise > require me to install `texlive-collection-latexextra', which is just too > big. > > AFAIC, I suggest to not fix this, as this is not worth the trouble. I see, makes sense. I am closing this issues then. Thanks for your fast reply and your hint to use collections instead. I sometimes make a game out of the most minimal Texlive manifest.scm for my TeX writings :D Best -- Daniel
