Hello Michael!

24 Feb 22 21:11, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 GK> You're right, this looks more involved. There are implicit 
 GK> dependencies that are unclear to me, and right now texi2any does not 
 GK> appear to work at all for me. I'll see if I can find the reason...

After some back and forth in packages, it looks to me like there is not much use in finding a smaller set of packages to make this work. Certainly, one could leave out things like texlive-docs (rather large), but as texlive-base alone appears not to be enough, the most convenient solution is to simply use texlive-full.
So the important thing is to have documentation production configurable (I think I never used it much). Especially the .info file can be compiled by just having texinfo installed. But for .dvi, .ps and .pdf you need the full thing. 


Regards,
Gerrit

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