[XeTeX] what happened to etoolbox.sty?

[Roland Kuhn]

On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:04 , Philipp Stephani wrote:

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> Am 17.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Roland Kuhn:
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>> On Oct 17, 2010, at 00:53 , Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>>> On Oct 16, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Roland Kuhn wrote:
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>>>> I wanted to try out different approaches to the french hyphenation problem involving apostrophes, thereby including
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>>>> \usepackage[french]{polyglossia}
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>>>> for the first time. The document fails to compile because etoolbox.sty cannot be found. The description of the TL2010 package "etex-pkg" still mentions it, but it contains no file of the name. In fact, "tlmgr search --file etoolbox" does not turn up anythin. What's up?
>>>> 
>>>> Roland
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>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Doesn't
>>> 
>>> kpsewhich etoolbox.sty
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>>> return anything?
>>> 
>> nope, however, even though it had not been found by tlmgr I just issued "tlmgr install etoolbox" which worked; then it was missing makecmds.sty :-( It seems that there are several dependencies missing, so I'm giving up and installing collection-latexextra, which I don't otherwise need.
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> TeX Live doesn't do any dependency management; installing a package doesn't install dependent packages.

This is in direct contradiction with the output of "tlmgr --help", but it explains what I’m seeing.

Roland

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