[XeTeX] what happened to etoolbox.sty?

[Philipp Stephani]

Am 17.10.2010 um 11:27 schrieb Roland Kuhn:

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> 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?
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>>>>> Roland
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>>>> Howdy,
>>>> 
>>>> Doesn't
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>>>> kpsewhich etoolbox.sty
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>>>> return anything?
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>>> 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.
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> This is in direct contradiction with the output of "tlmgr --help", but it explains what I’m seeing.

I must admit I haven't read the sections about dependency management until now. In this light my statement is obviously wrong because there must be some kind of dependency management, but it doesn't seem to be exhaustive.