Dependencies

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Tue Nov 5 15:26:24 CET 2019


On 05/11/2019 13:42, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
> 
> On Tue, 05 Nov 2019, Joseph Wright (CHE - Staff) wrote:
>> Working on automated testing, I run across a reasonable number of cases
>> where package dependencies are missing in TeX Live. Is it worth me
> 
> That is to be expected. We did never and do not promise inter-package
> dependencies to be correct, but we **try** to keep collections and their
> dependencies complete. That means, if you install collection-X, then
> everything you need should be installed automatically.
> 
> But, we are fine with getting inter-package dependencies and add them to
> our system. You can either send a patch to the tlpsrc files, or a simple
> list (package -depends-> package*).
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert

Hello Nobert,

Sure, I know that it' never been a case of having everything fully 
resolved. I was just wondering if it was desirable to add info here.

(Of course, almost all LaTeX packages depend on latex-base, which 
presumably doesn't want to be added all over the place!)

Joseph


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