On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:31 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> 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?

Thanks,
Richard