Dependencies

[David Carlisle]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 23:34, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>     l3build:
>     - luatex
>
> I am not sure about "depend luatex" for every lua-using package.
> Is there some reason why the dep is useful for l3build in particular?
>
>    latex-bin:
>     - luaotfload (at least for LuaLaTeX ...)
>
> How is luaotfload loaded? I'm guessing through Lua, which is bypassing
> the filename recorder, which is depressing to learn.
>
> I ask because I have a script (tlpkg/bin/check-fmttriggers) which builds
> all formats and looks at the .fls files. luaotfload does not show up in
> lualatex.fls :(.

luaotfload.sty isn't loaded, but the Lua from the luaotfload
distribution is loaded via
require('luaotfload-main')%
you can't dump Lua in the format, so it's in \everyjob so won't show
in the format log.

David