[Fedora TeX Live] "Ghost maps" otf-noEmbed.map, ptex-noEmbed.map

[Michael J Gruber]

José Matos venit, vidit, dixit 07.12.2011 17:01:
> On 12/07/2011 03:25 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> - PyX has a requires "tetex", which pulls in the world and what not:
>> spec patch filed at
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760524
>> (or install --nodeps the rebuilt rpm for now)
> 
> I will update the spec file to read:
> 
> Requires: tex(latex)
> 
> 
> Regarding the bug report PyX really needs latex as a dependency. The
> INSTALL file has:
> 
> "Prerequisites
> -------------
> 
> PyX requires Python 2.3 or newer and a TeX installation (including Type1
> fonts)."

Well, it's a python package, and it needs TeX only when calling it, i.e.
when typesetting text. It does not "require" TeX at all in the sense of
an "rpm requires".

Also, it does not even need LaTeX to typeset text - it's perfectly fine
with plain TeX. In fact, the default mode for PyX's text module is plain
TeX, not LaTeX.

In any case, I'm happy as long as PyX doesn't pull in texlive-complete
or such. The correct way would be as suggested in the patch, though.

> PS: FWIW I forgot to update PyX to 0.11 (oops :-( ). I will do it in the
> next days.
> 

There's 0.11.1 already ;)

Michael