Dependencies

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 08:49, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > travis CI  etc where, even if you cache the results, it is useful to
>
> > I was thinking also of the non-trivial number of people who find a full
> > installation simply too big.
>
> Agreed to both, so I really think it is useful. But it would be **much**
> more useful if we could get on-the-fly installation.
>
> BTW, hacking into mktextex works for normal file searches, only LaTeX
> hacks around it and does not call mktextex for missing files it seems.
> Is this on purpose?

Yes, since the earliest drafts of latex2e latex goes to some lengths
to avoid the primitive missing file error loop where you have to give
it a file.
so it does \n \openin and \ifeof check first and only use \input if
the file is there and raises a normal \errormessage if not.

>
> Best
>
> Norbert