#54 Installation on OpenSuse wants 3000 tex-live packages..

[zzz]

Hey Jeffrey,

I wanted to install gscan2pdf on a OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 machine. It's not in the official repo, but a found the repo of Dirk Müller here: https://software.opensuse.org/package/gscan2pdf. When installing, it asks me to install about 3000 (!!!) tex-live* packages. Is this intended? Can it be circumvented somehow? Thx!

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

gscan2pdf has no dependency on tex. You would have to ask Dirk Müller why the are being pulled in.

[zzz]

He did not answer.
But I managed to install it from another repo. Tex-live packages installation could be avoided using the "--no-recommends" option of zypper.

You can mark this solved.

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

Thanks for the feedback.