Are any of these transitive dependencies? If so it would be good to get this down to the minimal set that the user has to ask to be installed (vs the set that a package manager will decide it has to install).

If so it would be good to get this down to the minimal set that the user has to ask to be installed

Can't find an easy way to check transitive dependencies - I used tlmgr show to condense the original fedora list to a few packages (most of the fonts are in psnfss, most of the utilities are in lwarp, etc) , but can't figure out how to see dependencies for packages.

Most of the packages are included in the collections, which are installed if you're not using the most minimal installs. I don't know how many of these are installed if you're using a different distro (such as miktex)

* `cm<https://ctan.org/pkg/cm>`_ (collection-basic)* luahbtex (collection-basic)* `cm-super<https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-super>`_ (collection-fontsrecommended)* `lm<https://ctan.org/pkg/lm>`_ (collection-fontsrecommended)* `txfonts<https://ctan.org/pkg/txfonts>`_ (collection-fontsrecommended)* `latex<https://ctan.org/pkg/latex>`_ and latex-bin (collection-latex)* `psnfss<https://ctan.org/pkg/psnfss>`_ (collection-latex)* `import<https://ctan.org/pkg/import>`_ (collection-latexextra)* `sfmath<https://ctan.org/pkg/sfmath>`_ (collection-latexextra)* `type1cm<https://ctan.org/pkg/type1cm>`_ (collection-latexextra)* `fontspec<https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec>`_ (collection-latexrecommended)* `lwarp<https://ctan.org/pkg/lwarp>`_ (collection-latexrecommended)* `xetex <https://ctan.org/pkg/xetex>` and xetex-bin (collection-xetex)

The only package that's not in a required collection is dvipng.

According to ChatGPT

Package Manager: tlmgr (TeX Live Manager)
Dependency Handling:

tlmgr does not automatically install dependencies when you install a package manually. You need to ensure you install all required dependencies yourself.
However, if you install TeX Live using a package manager like apt (Ubuntu) or brew (macOS), dependency resolution is handled by those package managers.
The full TeX Live installation (scheme-full) includes all packages, preventing dependency issues.

So whether a minimal set is sufficient or whether the user has to install all transitive dependencies depends on whether you use tlmgr or your package manager. 😞 If one wanted to be precise you'd need the distinction. But maybe we don't have to care too much? Installing the given dependencies gives you a working system, which is what counts most.

whether the user has to install all transitive dependencies depends on whether you use tlmgr or your package manager

It's more complex than that b/c if you use the tlmgr gui, you get the option to also install dependencies.

But maybe we don't have to care too much?

My motivation here was installing cm-super and collections-fontrecommend and googling all the errors and I couldn't get things working until I went line by line on the fedora list. Which I kinda wrote this more for an audience that's troubleshooting their install than someone setting it up.

Installing the given dependencies gives you a working system

There might be some packages in collection-basic that I haven't listed, have no idea how to track them down.

Why does this new commit removegalleries/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/titles_demo.py?

b/c my git repo somehow got messy :/

LGTM

Reworked it into a table and I think this is much clearer: