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)
?
(Though of course in your case the dependency path might be different.)
Zbyszek