[MacPorts] #34588: biblatex-biber @0.9.3 About dependence between 'biblatex-biber' and 'texlive-bibtex-extra'

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#34588: biblatex-biber @0.9.3 About dependence between 'biblatex-biber' and
'texlive-bibtex-extra'
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 Reporter:  jean-sims@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  request               |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Low                   |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                 |     Version:  2.1.1                                
 Keywords:                        |        Port:  texlive-bibtex-extra biblatex-biber  
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 ''In this post, I used the following notation to avoid confusion between
 MacPorts package and LaTeX packages:[[BR]]
 - [MP] is used for MacPorts packages[[BR]]
 - [LTX] is used for LaTeX packages''

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 I was looking for installing 'biblatex' [LTX] on my MacPorts distribution.
 The only MacPorts package I found with ''biblatex'' keyword was 'biblatex-
 biber' [MP] which does NOT install 'biblatex' [LTX] (which is in 'texlive-
 bibtex-extra' [MP]) but only install the 'Biber' compiler needed by the
 'biblatex' [LTX].

 I looked in the previous tickets and saw that 'biblatex-biber' [MP]
 depends on 'texlive-bibtex-extra' [MP] and that 'biblatex-biber' [MP] has
 been documented to explain this dependence. These are good points to
 understand what is going on.

 But I'm pretty sure that people who are using only some package of
 'texlive-bibtex-extra' [MP] (like 'bibunits' [LTX] or 'jurabib' [LTX]) but
 NOT 'biblatex' [LTX] do not want 'Biber' to be installed (which depends on
 Perl => lot of space on the disk). However, people which install
 'biblatex-biber' [MP] wants to have 'biblatex' [LTX] installed (I do not
 think that 'Biber' can be used in other way).

 Anyway, we could create a 'texlive-biblatex' [MP] in the MacPorts
 distribution which only install 'biblatex' [LTX] and depends on 'biblatex-
 biber' package (bi-directionnal dependence). Moreover, it should be easier
 to maintain backward compatibility between 'Biber' and 'biblatex' [LTX] if
 'biblatex' [LTX] has is own package (which is not the case for now).

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