On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:40:12 +0200 Jonas Stein <jst...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > I just read > https://bugs.gentoo.org/625908#c5 > and saw that we do not have a good documentation on this and many > packages in the tree ship with strange tex dependencies. > > I started a documentation on our wiki > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Notes_on_TeX_related_ebuilds Well, your example (inkscape) is wrong: dep on tl-core is *never* sufficient and certainly does not provide a working latex command. First step to get it right is to use the already existing virtuals (virtual/{la,}tex-base).