Bug 494542

Summary:	app-text/texlive should RDEPEND on dev-tex/biblatex
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yichao Zhou <broken.zhou>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	TeX project <tex>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flow, hendrik, jstein, pacho, proxy-maint, redneb, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Yichao Zhou 2013-12-17 13:52:27 UTC

If I install texlive 2012 from DVD, biblatex is will be installed.

But currently, biblatex is mark as unstable is not installed.

Comment 1 Erik Quaeghebeur 2018-07-21 15:50:07 UTC

(In reply to Yichao Zhou from comment #0)
> If I install texlive 2012 from DVD, biblatex is will be installed.
> 
> But currently, biblatex is mark as unstable is not installed.
Currently only texlive 2017 is stable (or even in the tree; see <https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/texlive-core>). So please try that and report back.

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2019-05-03 07:32:52 UTC

It is still the same situation with recent texlive

tested by asking our chatbot wilikins
!rdep dev-tex/biblatex

I think dev-tex/biblatex should not be a hard RDEPEND for app-text/texlive, because many users can work without it.
For example if you need app-text/texlive as renderer for TeX support in Inkscape.

Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2020-10-05 11:04:06 UTC

*** Bug 746707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Florian Schmaus gentoo-dev

2024-03-01 10:31:57 UTC

biblatex will be pulled in once the 'extra' USE flag is enabled on app-text/texlive via texlive[extra] → bibtexextra → biblatex