(Note: specified texlive-latex-extra-doc as package but probably this issue
would be applied to other texlive -doc packages, too)

Hi,

Question,

Why -doc package **Depends** on tex? If it is exactly documentation package,
it should not depends on tex (just Recommends or Suggests is okay), IMO.

Could you explain why -doc depends on tex itself, please?

and it seems that it never crossed my mind that I should remove the
dependencies of the -doc packages on texlive-base and tex-common (this
is what you mean when writing "depends on tex", right?).

That can be fixed, for sure.

Norbert