Installing new dependencies when updating a package

[Norbert Preining]

Hi

> When updating a package, I find its newly added dependencies (recorded
> in DEPENDS.txt) are not automatically installed.

Yes, this is indeed the case.

	tlmgr install --reinstall minted

would do it correctly, but tlmgr update does not do it.

It would ONLY do it if you have the appropriate collection that contains
minted installed.

(Details are too complicated, but basically we run stateless with
respect to the remote database, so we cannot guess easly which packages
have been added.)

Similarily, the missing "binary" minted.ARCH wasn't installed out of the
same reason.

Both of those are unfortunate, and only happen when you install a
package by itself without the collection that it contains.

I will look into making this more consistent, but not sure this can be
done trivially.


Best regards

Norbert

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