The dependencies seem broken between texlive, pdftex and gui TeX programs like app-editors/gummi. I installed the packages in the following order: app-editors/gummi-0.5.8-r1 This has dependency: texlive-latex texlive-latexextra Which compiled fine at this time. Then I noticed, oh it's missing several math packages and complains actual "pdftex" is missing. So I went on and tried to emerge texlive manually app-text/texlive-2010-r2 Which failed to compile with the following error: http://bugs.gentoo.org/342581 After rebuilding luatex, it still didn't build and said in the build.log pdftex "command not found" So I emerged pdftex manually and texlive compiled successfully. The only package, that has pdftex as dependency (if doc USE flag is used, which I don't): disi@disi-laptop ~ $ equery depends pdftex * These packages depend on pdftex: x11-libs/libvdpau-0.4.1 (doc ? dev-tex/pdftex) Even eselect-pdftex depends on >=app-text/texlive-core-2008 and is a dependency of texlive, which doesn't depend on pdftex... so there is no pdftex on the system. Please see also the forums post at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6640627.html#6640627 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up texlive/gummi for the first time 2. 3. Actual Results: it will fail, because of missing dependencies in either gummi or texlive Expected Results: pdftex gets installed as some dependecy I'll post my emerge --info etc. later
dev-tex/pdftex is just a standalone replacement, pdftex is provided by texlive-core and this is actually the default you _need_ to use the eselect module if you want to switch to the other version, and actually an ebuild depending on dev-tex/pdftex is wrong http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/alternatives-for-core-tex-binaries/
