texlive-xetex (@17780_0) missing a dependency

[mjpost@…]

The latest version of fontspec (included with texlive-xetex) fails to run if packages

texlive-latex3 
texlive-latex-extra

are not installed, yet those are not listed as dependencies for texlive-xetex. Fontspec will first complain about a missing "expl3.sty" file (provided with texlive-latex3, and will also complain about a missing "binhex.tex" file (provided with texlive-latex-extra).

I think that these changes have to do with the transition to LaTeX 3.

You can repeat this problem by installing texlive-xetex (@17780_0) and typing

xelatex example.tex

(on the attached file).

[mjpost@…]

File that produces the problem (when texlive-latex3 and texlive-latex-extra are not installed)

[mjpost@…]

Cc Me!

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

[no need to cc yourself]

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Thanks for the report. It looks like this is an upstream bug in the dependencies as the texlive package database shows no dependencies for fontspec, yet clearly it has some.

I really don't want to add a dependency on texlive-latex-extra, because that would mean adding it to the default texlive+medium install, and it's a 300MB package.

Looks like in the latest CTAN snapshot the kastrup package (which provides binhex.sty) has moved from latex-extra to generic-recommended, so perhaps we can update to that. Not sure there's anything we can do about the expl3 dependency other than pulling in latex3 as a dependency...

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Should be fixed in r74955. (Sorry it took so long; it's a pain to regenerate the texlive distfiles)