Why do I need teTex-french.tar.gz????

[mwickes]

I performed an emerge of hylafax today and prior to doing so I did a --pretend to see what it needed. Needed normal dependencies. Then I am watching the emerge and I get the following. Albeit my French is not very good but why do I need the following package???

>>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/teTeX-french.tar.gz
--11:53:07-- http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/teTeX-french.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/teTeX-french.tar.gz'
Resolving www.ibiblio.org... done.
Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 268,161 [application/x-tar]

100%[========================================================>] 268,161 79.43K/s ETA 00:00

11:53:11 (79.43 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/teTeX-french.tar.gz' saved [268161/268161]


>>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/teTeX-texmf-gg-1.0.3.tar.bz2
--11:53:11-- http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/teTeX-texmf-gg-1.0.3.tar.bz2
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/teTeX-texmf-gg-1.0.3.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.ibiblio.org... done.
Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 35,037,546 [application/x-tar]

93% [====================================================> ] 32,781,458 78.62K/s ETA 00:28

[squanto]

do you have nls and tetex in your use variables?
if so, then it may try to grab tetex stuff for multi languages, but I am not sure.
I had tetex in my use vars, and then emerge --pretend ed and got lots of extra stuff, but since I don't use tetex I just took it out, and I only speak english, so I don't have nls either.

-Andrew

[tod]

Hi!

If you look at the ebuild, tetex-french is hardcoded in the SRC_URI. It was not added as a optional feature. This was done > 6 months ago about the -r2 revision of the ebuild. Unfortunately, the developer who did this is no longer active and the ebuild has no comments as to why this was done.

Regards,

tod