The packages dev-texlive/texlive* are often outdated. As far I read it is not trivial to keep the TeXLive distribution package up to date or convert the tlmgr system to gentoo ebuilds. As a solution one can install TeXLive with the tlmgr installer from https://www.tug.org/texlive/ in the user space and update on demand (several bugfixes and updates per day). Unfortunately some gentoo packages depend on TeXLive and the package manager will not see the installation in the user space. And via verse some TeXLive-packages depend on software on the gentoo system.As a workaround I installed dev-texlive/texlive-latex via package manager to satisfy most of the dependencies and then installed TeXLive (full installation) with tlmgr in the user space. Is there a better solution?How can I run a recent TeXlive setup with daily updates on gentoo Linux?
How to keep TeXLive up to date on gentoo?
gentoo;dependencies;latex;software updates
You may add packages to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided:dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016Please note that:you must include a versionyou must not use a leading equal signFor more informations read this Gentoo wiki article.Update (2017-02-28): a new Gentoo wiki article has been published: TeX Live manual installation