Dependencies

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Fri Nov 8 00:09:27 CET 2019


On 07/11/2019 23:08, Karl Berry wrote:
>      > Sure, I get that to some extent: with something complex like CTeX it's a
>      > bit tricky as all engines need stuff ...
> 
> I guess we could add an "optdepend" directive for optional
> dependencies. tlmgr would ignore them by default, but could follow them
> if asked.
> 
> Is it worth doing that for you? That is, then your test setup could say
> something like  tlmgr install --all-depends ctex  to get the engine-specific
> dependencies which you want. -k
> 

No, don't worry: in the end, I can track all this down on a VM anyway.

Joseph


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