Re: What's pulling in a bunch of texlive packages?

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On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:33:26AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:31 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <
> zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:01:50AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > I'm working on updating FreeCAD both for Python 3.9 and coming VTK 9.0
> > and
> > > I noticed that something is pulling in a lot of texlive packages but I am
> > > not BR'ing any.
> >
> > I'm seeing this too, with ~100 texlive packages pulled in on upgrade
> > in a VM.  I think this is caused by new dependencies between texlive
> > package. E.g.  I had texlive-kpathsea installed, presumably because it
> > is required by texlive-dvipng which is required by python3-matplotlib,
> > and upon upgrade this pulls in texlive-context, which pulls in
> > texlive-pstricks, which pulls in texlive-biblatex, which pulls in
> > texlive-xpatch, and so on. The dep was added back in #1270202.
> >
> > Dunno. python3-matplotlib pulling in the whole latex stack is going to
> > be painful. Maybe we could "downgrade" the dependency in python-matplotlib
> > to something like
> >    Recommends: dvipng
> >    Requires: (dvipng if texlive-base)
> > ?
> >
> 
> That's actually it!
> 
> I think moving it to Recommends (if it doesn't break anything) would be a
> good idea. I assume Recommends are not installed in koji/mock?

Yeah, Recommends are not installed in koji/mock.

Zbyszek
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