Bug#877860: texlive-latex-recommended: Fontspec fails under LuaTeX if texlive-luatex (no dependency) is not installed

To: Timo Kalliomäki <timoka10@gmail.com>, 877860@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#877860: texlive-latex-recommended: Fontspec fails under LuaTeX if texlive-luatex (no dependency) is not installed
From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 21:06:03 +0900
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> When compiling with LuaTeX, the fontspec package requires the package
> luaotfload. However, there is no dependency to texlive-luatex in which

Yes, but if you use xetex it does not need it.
If you want to use luatex, then yes, texlive-***luatex*** is somehow 
required.

I will not add a dep from texlive-latex-recommended onto tl-luatex,
just for the *very* few cases of people using luatex without
installing texlive-luatex.

Norbert

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