Title: TeX Live 2025/2026 imported — masked during initial testing
Author: Ivan S. Titov <iohann.s.titov@gmail.com>
Posted: 2026-05-29
Revision: 1
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The stuff overlay now ships TeX Live 2025 and 2026 -- texlive-core, the 39
dev-texlive/* collections, and the split build tools -- ahead of ::gentoo's
TL2024.

== Masked for now ==

The set is ~amd64 and package.masked for an initial testing window, so it is
not pulled by default, even on ~amd64. Stable amd64 users are unaffected
(::gentoo's TL2024 is stable). The mask drops on 2026-06-12.

To opt in early, copy the 2026-05-29 TeX Live block from the overlay's
profiles/package.mask into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and accept ~amd64).

== Upgrading ==

Some packages moved between collections across TL years. The ebuilds carry
blockers that order the moves, but they resolve cleanly only when the whole
set upgrades together -- use `emerge -uDN @world`. A partial merge can hit
protect-owned collisions; add FEATURES="-protect-owned" if you must do one.

== Known limitation ==

xelatex font-by-name (\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}) needs a fontconfig
snippet for the texmf font dir -- the standard upstream TeX Live step.
pdflatex and lualatex are unaffected.