[attn maintainer] latex dependencies

[Marco Atzeri]

On 14/12/2023 16:50, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 12/14/2023 4:22 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> it seems that both
>>
>>     texlive-collection-latex
>>     texlive-collection-latexextra
>>
>> depend on
>>
>>    texlive-collection-latexrecommended
>>
>> that seems to me contra intuitive. can you please check ?
> 
> Hi Marco,
> 
> Do you have an example of a LaTeX file that uses packages only in 
> texlive-collection-latex but fails to compile if 
> texlive-collection-latexrecommended is not installed?  Without this, 
> it's very hard for me to check if the occurrences of "pdftexcmds.sty" 
> that you found really indicate dependencies.  My technical knowledge of 
> LaTeX is not good enough to determine this just from looking at the .sty 
> files.  See below for further comments on a few of the occurrences.
> 

the last gl2ps package had such issue

https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/7204747329/job/19626758626

adding the texlive-collection-latexrecommended
as dependency, solved that issue

https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/7206881393/job/19632744288