Dependencies

Maximilian Nöthe maximilian.noethe at tu-dortmund.de
Mon Nov 25 15:07:23 CET 2019


iftex needs pdftexcmds but seems not to be included in its dependencies

On 08.11.19 00:38, Karl Berry wrote:
>      > It's needed to build xelatex-dev, which is part of xetex.tlpsrc.
>
>      Er, I'm still confused :) I thought latex-base-dev would be strictly
>      opt-in.
>
> Ok, I split xelatex-dev into its own package. Still part of
> collection-xetex, so the change should be mostly invisible except in
> cases like yours where you're working with individual packages.
>
> The underlying idea is that, long ago, xetex itself was "opt-in", in the
> sense that one could install the whole (La)TeX system without any XeTeX.
> It was all segregated into c-xetex. Conversely, if someone asks for
> xetex, they get everything; it's never been big enough to have
> c-xetexextra. Therefore, when I added xelatex-dev, I just added it to the
> xetex package, since it was the easiest thing to do.
>
> That scenario should still basically be possible with core latex,
> although there are surely plenty of xetex-dependent packages in other
> collections at this point. -k
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