tlmgr package dependencies

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Thu Apr 21 14:32:47 CEST 2022


Hi Nicola,

> Does tlmgr install dependent packages and, if so, how does it determine
> dependencies?

Yes, if they are recorded.
And recording is a manual process, that is adding a depends line to a
file in our repo. So if you know of hard dependencies (not induced by
loading a package with some options, but a package that is always
loaded), let us know.

Best

Norbert

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