Re: A new round of dependencies

Hi again,

Le 03/03/2026 à 01:29, Karl Berry a écrit :
> Hi Archange,
>
>      of missing dependencies
>
> Thanks, installed almost all.

Perfect, thanks! Another (small) round:

chemfig depends on simplekv
fvextra depends on upquote,lineno
cprotect depends bigfoot (for suffix)

>      When we discussed this topic two years ago, Karl told me that there is
>      no concept of hard or optional deps in texlive. I guess the fact
>      ``soft'' ones are commented out is linked to that, but asking [...]
>
> What I meant was that we don't do anything with soft dependencies
> (because what could we do?). Soft deps can be stated in DEPENDS.txt
> files in case we have some brilliant idea in the future, but for now,
> they are either commented out or ignored in the .tlpsrc files and have
> no other effect.

Well package managers of Linux distributions generally differentiate 
from hard and soft dependencies (Debian has even three levels with hard, 
recommends and suggests). But I guess this would be a lot of dev, while 
human ressources are likely already scarce and better spent on other 
LaTeX projects.

> Good luck with your thesis. Thanks again. -k

Oh, I defended my thesis years ago. But this is the first document I 
recompile on every TeX Live yearly upgrade to check for 
changes/differences. It’s huge enough that it uses a lot of the packages 
I use elsewhere, so a good first check.

Regards,
Archange