Dependencies

[David Carlisle]

The current version of iftex has no dependencies on any other packages.

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 14:09, Maximilian Nöthe
<maximilian.noethe at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
> 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