Re: Texlive-texmf

[Eric Bavier]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:41:44 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:  
> >> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:  
> >> > This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the
> >> > internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake,
> >> > since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion.
> >> > So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days.  
> >> OK.  
> >
> > Well, in the end this is not so easily possible.
> >
> > gnuplot depends on texlive-bin as a native-input. I replaced this by
> > texlive-minimal, but I think the native input can be dropped completely.  
> 
> Not sure.  Eric added the dependency on TeX Live in 97003b5c.
> Eric, WDYT?

Gnuplot looks for some binaries to determine whether and where to
install some latex sty files.  As long as those are still installed with
texlive-minimal, that should be fine.  I used texlive-bin in order to
remove the heavyweight texlive dependency.
 
`~Eric