Remove texlive-bin from depends

[eschwab]

It seems unnecessary to have texlive-bin as a dependency since this package provides the gregorio binary.

I just ran into this dependency issue test building the new 6.1.0 release. I do not install TexLive from the AUR but directly from Tug. Thus I need to install texlive-dummy from the AUR which does not provide texlive-bin. Creating a dependency deficiency when trying to build gregorio.

[edmundlod]

Sounds reasonable. It could be moved to 'optdepends' instead, together with texlive-dummy? And a note that some sort of TeX distribution would be required.

I have been meaning to look into a lighter weight TeX distribution that would suffice for gregorio, as TeX pulls in a lot of things that are possibly not necessary; and bandwidth is not available/cheap everywhere. But that's a different topic.

[edmundlod]

Upon reflection, I am not sure that removing TeX or moving it to 'optdepends' is the right solution.

The 'depends' section is for listing software that is required to run the package. In this case, TeX definitely is required.

I remember once reading a forum post (bbs.archlinux.org) about several different options for depend software (e.g. we could have texlive, miktex, and other tex packages). This cannot be done via 'optdepends', because one needs at least one TeX distribution installed.

If memory serves me correctly, the solution was to create different AUR packages for these differences. In our case, for example:

• gregorio {this one with the texlive package from Arch Linux)
• gregorio-no-tex (this one with no tex in the depends - here the TeX distributions that Arch Linux makes available could be listed under 'optdepends' perhaps; or otherwise a comment in the 'PKGBUILD' that a TeX distribution must be installed, with some options?).

Unfortunately, I cannot find that forum post now.

I hope this helps.