Re: [Quilt-dev] Packages required to compile doc/main.tex

[Jean Delvare]

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 14:22 +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 07:08:49PM +0200, Ondřej Lysoněk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > just throwing this information out there in case someone (future me, for
> > example) finds it useful.
> > 
> > On Fedora, in order to compile doc/main.tex I needed to install the
> > following packages:
> > 
> > texlive-latex texlive-subfigure texlive-metafont texlive-mfware
> > texlive-cyrillic texlive-collection-langcyrillic texlive-cmap
> > texlive-cm-super
> > 
> > It might be useful to document this somewhere.
> 
> I agree that this information is useful. In Debian, we compile the
> page with hevea instead of texlive. This eases this problem, as the
> hevea package is sufficient to build the page. I guess that it takes
> care of pulling the needed dependencies, or something.

We could document that as an alternative.

> Likewise, (it seems that) running hevea once is enough to resolve all
> the internal references.
> 
> Of course, the above information remains useful to the users of
> texlive. I'm just a bit surprised by the need of texlive-cyrillic and
> texlive-collection-langcyrillic. I could provide the corresponding
> names for Debian and derivatives if you want. I have to do some tests
> for that.

Presumably they are not needed for quilt.pdf, but needed for
quilt-rus.pdf.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support