tlmgr package dependencies

[Maximilian Nöthe]

Hi all,

Seeing issues like these pop up so often and the manual process involved 
for fixing them,
wouldn't there an easy, intermediate solution for improving the 
situation that's not going "full package management"?

I am thinking something simple like packages could include a simple 
"required_texlive_packages.txt"* for packages that
could be included in the source distribution with one package per line? 
Sure, it would take some time until a
large number of packages pick this up, but package maintainers normally 
know better what they depend on and under which circumstances
than TeX-Live maintainers, right?

Cheers
Max


* more advanced options would be adding files along the lines of a 
package.json or pyproject.toml, but that would require
a more thorough design process.

On 21.04.22 23:03, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
>
>      datetime2 always loads: tracklang, etoolbox and xkeyval.
>
> Added those dependencies for tonight's TL update. --best, karl.

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