Re: omitting collection-fontsextra installation by default? (RFC)
Eric Toombs <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:10:32 +0300
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I was bitten by this. archlinux used to omit collection-fontsextra, and it actually worked pretty well, except for certain packages. For me, it was mathrsfs, which was missing the rsfs font. I got it working with tlmgr --usermode install rsfs but I wouldn't have had to do that if rsfs was already a part of collection-latexrecommended. It seems perfectly fair to me that rsfs should be a part of latexrecommended. Either that or mathrsfs should *not* be in latexrecommended. As a workaround, archlinux had to include (ALL OF) fontsextra to resolve this, and probably other missing dependencies, because there are probably many other examples of this. What I suggest is to just add only the fonts that a collection needs to that collection. So, rsfs would get added to collection-latexrecommended. All of the fonts don't need to be added all at once. This work can be done incrementally, starting with the most common fonts, like rsfs. The only potential problem I see is some kind of conflict if a package is in two collections. But that shouldn't be a problem. Right? I hope...