Am 17.03.19 um 12:23 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
texlive OTOH feels more like a programming language where components should be installed on a strictly is-needed basis only. No doubt some genius has put a dynamic "is-available(extra-module)" check in some tex file, necessiting Recommends :-(
What would help though (from a user's perspective) if the essential pieces would come from < 5 packages. Like the glibc-devel package already comes with pthread.h - even if not needed by everyone. It's actually not super hard to do - as the texlive specs are generated, but it takes time, so if there are volunteers... Greetings, Stephan -- Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org