getting rid of tetex [solved]

[pindar]

Since tetex has been abandoned and gentoo texlive isn't moving anywhere, I have purged tetex and installed TeXLive from the iso image on CTAN, and it works wonderfully. My problem is that a number of packages (such as auctex) still try to pull in tetex as a dependency when I update world. How can I prevent that? I tried adding tetex to package.mask, but that always gives errors. Is there a more canonical/elegant solution for getting rif of tetex for good?

Thanks!

[nixnut]

unmask and emerge texlive

[jawilson]

Hey,
I did the same thing, and I solved it by adding tetex to my package.provided file, under /etc/make.profile, using the full package name. So the entry in package.provided would be app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r3. This tells portage that you have manually installed a program that it would otherwise pull in as a dependency. Check out man portage for more info.

[wynn]

Since tetex has been abandoned and gentoo texlive isn't moving anywhere, I have purged tetex and installed TeXLive from the iso image on CTAN, and it works wonderfully. My problem is that a number of packages (such as auctex) still try to pull in tetex as a dependency when I update world. How can I prevent that? I tried adding tetex to package.mask, but that always gives errors. Is there a more canonical/elegant solution for getting rif of tetex for good?

Not elegant ... practical? Whenever a package wants to bring in teTeX unmerge the package.

A slightly more elegant procedure, run

Code: Select all

equery depends tetex

which, here, returns

Code: Select all

$ equery depends tetex
[ Searching for packages depending on tetex... ]
app-doc/doxygen-1.4.7 (tetex? virtual/tetex)
app-emacs/auctex-11.83 (virtual/tetex)
app-text/a2ps-4.13c-r5 (tetex? virtual/tetex)
sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.0-r1 (doc? virtual/tetex)

and unmerge them.

[jawilson]

Whenever a package wants to bring in teTeX unmerge the package.

In my case, I wanted to install kile, the latex editor, which pulls in tetex as a dependency. However, I already have texlive, and it does not make sense to unmerge the package if it is something that I actually want. I think that package.provided is the way to go here. (I think there IS a version of texlive in portage, but it is the 2005 version, not 2007, but if that is not a problem, you could unmask and emerge that instead).

[BitJam]

These instructions are similar to what jawilson said but they combine masking and providing so an upgrade to tetex won't get installed in a future emerge -uDN world.

This has been working fine for me except when I tried to install jadetex. I added the line:

Code: Select all

export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"

to my /etc/portage/bashrc file which helped move things along but it still errorred out later in the process. Then I realized that TeXLive already provides jadetex.

[wynn]

Whenever a package wants to bring in teTeX unmerge the package.

In my case, I wanted to install kile, the latex editor, which pulls in tetex as a dependency. However, I already have texlive, and it does not make sense to unmerge the package if it is something that I actually want. I think that package.provided is the way to go here. (I think there IS a version of texlive in portage, but it is the 2005 version, not 2007, but if that is not a problem, you could unmask and emerge that instead).

Yes, you're right.

I should have waited to see what the grownups had to say first before piping up

[pindar]

*Slaps forehead* package.provided, that's what I was looking for! Thanks for all the replies! No, I want to keep auctex and vim latexsuite, unmerging them is not an option. And texlive 2005 is not only way too old, it also lacks ppc binaries, so I can't install it. I really hope the texlive ebuild will get going soonish (TeXLive 2007, which does have ppc binaries and many new versions, has been out for three months now) , but TeX doesn't appear to be very important to most gentooers.

Thanks!