Circular dependency between ctex and xecjk
Vincenzo Mantova
vlmantova at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 12:56:37 CEST 2022
Hi Karl,
Many thanks for the quick clarification. That January thread flew under my
radar, or I might have caught this earlier.
No one else has reported any resulting problems. So I hope you can fix
> or work around it somehow. I doubt it will cause any great consternation
> if you simply drop one or the other dependency for the time being.
>
Indeed, we'll start by dropping one dependency, until we can make our code
more robust. I also don't think it will cause any trouble.
Best,
Vincenzo
Il giorno dom 3 apr 2022 alle ore 21:39 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
ha scritto:
> Hi Vincenzo,
>
> I noticed a circular dependency in the current TeX Live: ctex depends
> on
> xecjk, and xecjk depends on ctex. Is this normal?
>
> It is intentional, anyway. I added the (indeed, known to be circular)
> dependency in January, in response to:
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2022-January/047648.html
>
> No one else has reported any resulting problems. So I hope you can fix
> or work around it somehow. I doubt it will cause any great consternation
> if you simply drop one or the other dependency for the time being.
>
> In my answer, I noted that our tlmgr script works ok with it.
> I also surmised that there were already other circular deps,
> but given your note, I guess not, and this was the first. --best, karl.
>
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