[tex-live] Bug#420394: How to handle interdependencies of collections

[Juergen Fenn]

Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> writes:

>> I agree with Frank that acronym is useful not only for those working
>> in the humanities. However, if I got it right, we could say humanities
>> requires latexextra, but not vice versa, right? So if a user can do
>> without the humanities packages he still can install latexextra only.
>
> We could, but then we could as well lump all of colleciton-humanities
> into collection-latexextra. 

We had this discussion earlier when c.-humanities was created. We
agreed then that a complete install of TL is recommended anyway. So if
you decide not to make a full install it still makes sense to split
latexextra and humanities as long as the user knows where to get
the missing packages from. I think a comment on the relations between
some packages in the two collections would do.

Regards,
Jürgen.