Bug 494542 – app-text/texlive should RDEPEND on dev-tex/biblatex

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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 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 2020-10-05 11:04:06 UTC]

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

[Comment 4 Florian Schmaus 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