+1 (This has long been on my list of things to fix.)

For openSUSE, zypper install --no-recommends texlive-latex should suffice.

@aacid We should improve this for local tests too. Either better error message or skip the test, what do you think? (Will prepare a patch.)

...and 3e7d568e9778 could probably be reverted (will be pulled in by the package above, and adds tons of unnecessary stuff via its recommends).

If you add code to skip the test means the test won't be run because people will forget to install pdflatex so I would very much prefer not to have that

Sorry, i'd previously thought that was resolved by the package I had scheduled to be installed in 3e7d568e9778.