Re: [attn maintainer] latex dependencies

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 12/14/2023 2:46 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 14/12/2023 16:50, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 12/14/2023 4:22 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> it seems that both
>>>
>>>     texlive-collection-latex
>>>     texlive-collection-latexextra
>>>
>>> depend on
>>>
>>>    texlive-collection-latexrecommended
>>>
>>> that seems to me contra intuitive. can you please check ?
>>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> Do you have an example of a LaTeX file that uses packages only in 
>> texlive-collection-latex but fails to compile if 
>> texlive-collection-latexrecommended is not installed?  Without this, 
>> it's very hard for me to check if the occurrences of "pdftexcmds.sty" 
>> that you found really indicate dependencies.  My technical knowledge 
>> of LaTeX is not good enough to determine this just from looking at the 
>> .sty files.  See below for further comments on a few of the occurrences.
>>
> 
> the last gl2ps package had such issue
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/7204747329/job/19626758626
> 
> adding the texlive-collection-latexrecommended
> as dependency, solved that issue
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/7206881393/job/19632744288

Thanks.  The problem is that line 111 of 
/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty contains 
\RequirePackage{pdftexcmds}.  Since hyperref is in the latex collection, 
pdftexcmds should also be in that collection.  I'll report this upstream.

But there's no bug in the latexextra package.  The upstream latexextra 
collection does indeed depend on the latexrecommended collection, and 
this is reflected in the Cygwin packaging.  So this dependency is by 
design (and it makes intuitive sense to me).

Thanks for the report.

Ken