Re: TeX Live on CentOS 7

[Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 22, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Alice Wonder <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If a package on my system wants a CentOS texlive as dependency it gets it, there are texlive packages installed.


That’s not how the RPM dependency system works.

Unless you’ve got a package that *provides* either the package name or path, RPM has no idea about it.  It doesn’t go out and look to see if there are executables in the $PATH of the user installing the software.

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Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>


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