Bugzilla Bug 94815

$ emerge -uDvp world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] dev-tex/xkeyval (is blocking app-text/tetex-3.0-r2)

However, tetex-3.0-r2 is already installed on my system. I am constantly
unmerging xkeyval, emerging -uD world, and then remerging xkeyval. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
I assume that since xkeyval is required by some latex packages, that it should
be compatible with tetex

markup herd, is this is your - rather broken - way to for a rebuild!?

xkeyval is now part of tetex since >=tetex-3 so you don't 
need to install it separately. Could you tell me what package
actually requires xkeyval explicitly?

> xkeyval is now part of tetex since >=tetex-3

Why don't block xkeyval,...  tetex-3, then? Blocking should be always mutual in
such a case imho, otherwise users won't notice that they have outdated packages
installed.

The ha-prosper package requires xkeyval. If I dont have it merged, latex
reports
errors.

I guess I shouldnt have merged xkeyval, I didnt know it was included in
tetex-3.
Does this same issue also exists for latex-beamer?

(In reply to comment #5)
> I guess I shouldnt have merged xkeyval, I didnt know it was included in tetex-3.
> Does this same issue also exists for latex-beamer?

Yes latex-beamer is also included in tetex-3.0

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(In reply to comment #7)
> *** Bug 95235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks Arne.

1. Some more packages:

[blocks B     ] dev-tex/pgf (is blocking app-text/tetex-3.0-r2)
[blocks B     ] dev-tex/xcolor (is blocking app-text/tetex-3.0-r2)
[blocks B     ] dev-tex/latex-beamer (is blocking app-text/tetex-3.0-r2)

2. I suggest changing title of this bug to reflect that not only xkeyval is
involved.

3. Why not add virtuals for these blocked packages and make tetex-3.0 provide
these virtuals?

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Changing the summary.

*** Bug 104101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

the example files of latex-beamer shipped with tetex need pgf and xcolor to
work.

pdflatex /usr/share/doc/tetex-3.0-r2/latex/beamer/examples/beamerexample1.tex:

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty))

! LaTeX Error: File `pgf.sty' not found.
! LaTeX Error: File `xcolor.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,

so you should make them a dependency on tetex-3

Should we deal with latex-beamer differently? Since latex-beamer also installs
stuffs related with lyx, such as beamer.layout.

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Created an attachment (id=73300) [details]
9 patchs for adding mutual blocks.

Those packages should indeed block mutually. Here come the needed patches to
add !>=app-text/tetex-3 to DEPEND.

The mutual blocks have been added to the tree. Feel free to repopen if I missed
some packages.

Would it be possible to have a comment at the blocks (at least in the .eclass) 
on why they were made?

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Maybe blocking is the wrong way.  When packages in the tree are somewhat newer
than the ones provided by tetex, they should be installed into a separate tree
that is an overlay of the standard texmf tree.  As TEXMFSITE.

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