[tex-live] beamer: has more dependencies?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Nov 10 01:23:36 CET 2008
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard writes:
> Karl Berry a écrit :
> > Maybe. One problem is that too many dependencies is just as bad as too
> > few. Are xcolor and ifxetex *always* required?
>
> xcolor is not required in article mode using the noxcolor option OTOH,
> you rarely compile a beamer document *only* in article mode :-) So I
> would say yes, it is always required.
>
> ifxetex is required by hyperref and other packages (probably graphicx,
> didn't check) which are always loaded by beamer.
>
> Now, both xcolor and ifxetex are in collection-latexrecommended (as well
> as beamer). I thought our policy concerning dependencies was that people
> are assumed to install collectionwise. So here the dependency would be
> correct, since only pgf is not in the same collection as beamer.
Hi Manuel,
texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty
works under Plain TeX too. Seems that it makes more sense to install
it unconditionally instead of putting it into a LaTeX related package.
Regards,
Reinhard
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