Created attachment 427384 [details, diff] add LATEX_ARGUMENTS for documentation compilation the latex package dev-tex/minted requires to pass -shell-escape to pdflatex in order to compile its documentation. As this may be required also for other packages, to pass this or other arguments to pdflatex/texi2pdf in order to compile correctly. I suggest adding a variable with optional (default empty) arguments. Attached is a patch introducing the variable LATEX_ARGUMENTS for this task.
sounds like a good idea (though '-shell-escape' is really not safe but that's another issue :) ) just one thing: I wouldn't pass those args to texi2dvi; even if some are mapped 1:1 I don't think texi2dvi guarantees that every single pdflatex arg ever will be accepted and passed properly. could you please submit a github PR with the above amendment ? (it's easier for me to merge and you retain authorship in git log)
of course -shell-escape is nothing to enable by default - but sometimes required, as may other options too. As texi2pdf is used as fall back, I think there should be at least a way to give some options to both of them? Having two variables is a bit overkill in my opinion. I'm not familiar with texi2pdf and therefore don't know much about compatibility between both - just looked for shell-escape in the according man page. as I am quite new to gentoo: github PR to https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo?
(In reply to Jonas Rabenstein from comment #2) > As texi2pdf is used as fall back, I think there should be at least a way to > give some options to both of them? Having two variables is a bit overkill in > my opinion. I'm not familiar with texi2pdf and therefore don't know much > about compatibility between both - just looked for shell-escape in the > according man page. well, I left the texi2dvi fallback just in case, but it really shouldn't be used anymore IMHO: if your package works with 'pdflatex $some_options', then you shouldn't worry at all about texi2dvi I'd rather leave the texi2dvi call as is in fact > as I am quite new to gentoo: github PR to https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo? yep, exactly
PR merged, thanks!
