There are several packages providing virtual/tetex, being derivative supersets of tetex. Some packages (notably Canna) require, say, ptex to build their documentation. Almost none legitimately require app-text/tetex. This is a metabug to capture these issues. Depending on app-text/tetex is a fairly common bug. Just about the only legitimate non-bug reasons to even mention it in an ebuild are if the package is very tex related or if you want to block specific versions of tetex. (and, even for the latter, most of those are unnecessary with virtual/tetex-2 and virtual/tetex-3. Almost certainly, if an ebuild even mentions app-text/tetex and the author is not aware of virtual/tetex et al, it is probably a bug. About the only thing coming close to an exception is that app-text/evince, if I recall correctly, doesn't detect (at least) ptex. With that exception, most bare unversioned app-text/tetex depends can be replaced with virtual/tetex.
A fairly naive grep through the portage tree for mentions of app-text/tetex. Most of these don't represent bugs. app-office/gnucash/gnucash-2.0.2.ebuild: app-text/tetex ) app-office/gnucash/gnucash-2.0.1.ebuild: tetex? ( app-text/tetex )" app-text/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-20050201.ebuild: if has_version '>=app-text/tetex-3' || has_version '>=app-text/ptex-3.1.8' ; then app-text/xdvik/xdvik-22.84.10.ebuild: if has_version app-text/tetex && built_with_use app-text/tetex X ; then app-text/dvipdfm/dvipdfm-0.13.2c.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2 app-text/dvipdfm/dvipdfm-0.13.2c.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-2 app-text/texlive/texlive-2005.ebuild: !app-text/tetex app-text/evince/evince-0.5.0.ebuild: app-text/tetex app-text/evince/evince-0.4.0-r3.ebuild: dvi? ( app-text/tetex ) app-text/evince/evince-0.5.3-r1.ebuild: app-text/tetex app-text/evince/evince-0.5.1.ebuild: app-text/tetex app-text/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21.ebuild: !<app-text/tetex-3" app-text/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21.ebuild: tetex? ( >=app-text/tetex-3 )" app-text/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21_p4.ebuild: !<app-text/tetex-3" app-text/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.21_p4.ebuild: tetex? ( >=app-text/tetex-3 )" app-text/jadetex/jadetex-3.13-r1.ebuild: if has_version '>=app-text/tetex-2.96' || has_version '>=app-text/ptex-3.1.4.20041026' ; then app-text/jadetex/jadetex-3.12.ebuild: if has_version '>=app-text/tetex-2.96' || has_version '>=app-text/ptex-3.1.4.20041026' ; then dev-ada/asis/asis-3.44.ebuild: app-text/tetex dev-embedded/avrdude/avrdude-5.1.ebuild: app-text/tetex dev-lang/mmix/mmix-20060324.ebuild: app-text/tetex" dev-tex/pgf/pgf-0.65-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/pgf/pgf-1.01.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0 dev-tex/pgf/pgf-0.64-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/xkeyval/xkeyval-2.4-r1.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/xkeyval/xkeyval-1.4-r1.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/extsizes/extsizes-1.0.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-2 dev-tex/ha-prosper/ha-prosper-4.21.ebuild: || ( dev-tex/xkeyval >=app-text/tetex-3 >=app-text/ptex-3.1.8 )" dev-tex/SIunits/SIunits-1.25.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2.96" dev-tex/latex-beamer/latex-beamer-3.06-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/latex-beamer/latex-beamer-3.01-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/latex-beamer/latex-beamer-3.06.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/latex-beamer/latex-beamer-3.00-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/koma-script/koma-script-20040616.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/koma-script/koma-script-20051125.ebuild:RDEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/koma-script/koma-script-20040824.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/eurosym/eurosym-1.4.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2 dev-tex/currvita/currvita-0.9i.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2 dev-tex/algorithms/algorithms-2005.07.05.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/lineno/lineno-3.10-r1.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/xcolor/xcolor-2.00-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/xcolor/xcolor-1.11-r1.ebuild: !>=app-text/tetex-3.0" dev-tex/xmltex/xmltex-1.9-r1.ebuild: if has_version '>=app-text/tetex-2.96' || has_version '>=app-text/ptex-3.1.4.20041026' ; then dev-tex/g-brief/g-brief-4.0.1.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2.96" dev-tex/floatflt/floatflt-1.31a.ebuild:DEPEND="!>=app-text/tetex-2.96" games-board/freedoko/freedoko-0.7.3.ebuild: doc? ( app-text/tetex ) kde-base/kdvi/kdvi-3.5.5.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdvi/kdvi-3.5.2.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdvi/kdvi-3.5.4.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdvi/kdvi-3.5.3.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdegraphics/kdegraphics-3.5.4.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdegraphics/kdegraphics-3.5.3.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdegraphics/kdegraphics-3.5.5.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 kde-base/kdegraphics/kdegraphics-3.5.2.ebuild: || ( >=app-text/tetex-2 net-mail/freepops/freepops-0.0.98-r1.ebuild:# app-text/tetex net-mail/freepops/freepops-0.0.31.ebuild: app-text/tetex sci-electronics/gnucap/gnucap-20060708.ebuild:DEPEND="doc? ( app-text/tetex ) sci-electronics/gnucap/gnucap-20060830.ebuild:DEPEND="doc? ( app-text/tetex )" sci-electronics/gnucap/gnucap-0.35.ebuild:DEPEND="doc? ( app-text/tetex )" sys-apps/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-r4.ebuild: has_version '<app-text/tetex-3' && rm -f "${D}"/usr/bin/texi2pdf sys-apps/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-r3.ebuild: has_version '<app-text/tetex-3' && rm -f "${D}"/usr/bin/texi2pdf sys-apps/texinfo/texinfo-4.8-r2.ebuild: has_version '<app-text/tetex-3' && rm -f "${D}"/usr/bin/texi2pdf x11-libs/ewl/ewl-9999.ebuild: doc? ( app-text/tetex )"
No, please... Each of these ebuilds needs to be checked whether it actually works or not with something else. Filing a monster bug about ~30 ebuilds won't plain go anywhere (plus check for most recent versions only, a couple of those in the list are definitely already changed). Also, the list desperate needs a cleanup for irrelevant stuff (those blockers are not related to this at all, they are there for a reason).
Cleaned-up list - latest version only, minus ebuilds where the virtual is not used intentionally (like kde-base/kdegraphics or kde-base/kdvi) app-office/gnucash app-text/linuxdoc-tools dev-ada/asis dev-embedded/avrdude dev-lang/mmix games-board/freedoko sci-electronics/gnucap x11-libs/ewl
Thanks; I filed bugs for the obvious cases already. Specifically, anything depending on bare app-text/tetex just to compile a few .tex documentation documentation files should depend on virtual instead if there is no reason to believe that ptex et al won't work. There's no more need to specifically check if an ebuild works with ptex than to specifically check if it works with, say, tetex-2. It's vastly more likely that the latter is a problem, given the large number of added packages in tetex-3. In any event, the previous list was specifically intended to be a superset, and I wasn't ever planning to file bugs against most of them. The ones I *really* care about are the unnecessary app-text/tetex depends that try to pull in tetex. That said, a lot of the blocks predate the inclusion of tetex-2 and tetex-3 virtuals, and a fair number are insufficient. Specifically, a lot of tex packages that are included in tetex-3 block >=app-text/tetex-3 when they should block >=virtual/tetex-3 instead. Someone on the text-markup team ought to look over the dev-tex ebuilds for that issue, in particular. At first glance it looks like all but two of the aforementioned ebuilds should properly block either virtual/tetex-2 or virtual/tetex-3 instead.
looks like we can close this finally.
