Friday, February 01, 2019

Re: texlive & evince

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:07:15AM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:
> I agree that it's not good for users to have to install a texmf subset
> just to use evince. I'm OK with evince lib depending upon texlive-base
> in the interim until we decide what to do, but in the long term we don't
> want that heavy dependency.

So, unless I am mistaken, our evince package works because it either
picks up synctex from texlive_base if it's installed by chance at pkg
time, or else it is using its internal copy of synctex.

What do we want to do?

- In tex live, put synctex into its own subpackage and LIB_DEPEND it.
- In tex live, move synctex into -mktexlsr. Evince already LIB_DEPENDS this.
- Patch evince to always use its internal copy.

FWIW, I'm leaning towards the first option.

Cheers!

--
Best Regards
Edd Barrett

http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

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