Dependency updates for LaTeX

Joseph Wright <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Mar 2026 08:51:40 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello all,

Prompted by the dependency thread, it would be good if the core LaTeX 
"required" set was always installed when LaTeX is, i.e. adding

depend amsmath
depend latex-first-aid
depend graphics
depend tools

to the entry for latex; these lines could then be removed elsewhere. 
(Technically you could have some plain code depending on graphics for 
the plain-TeX path, but I very much doubt this is covered in the TL list.)

(I've deliberately skipped latex-lab here - the argument is less strong 
for that.)

It might also be sensible to add "depend epstopdf-pkg" to the entry for 
graphics, as whilst I see the 'you don't need it for a classical DVI 
workflow' argument, it's more-or-less always wanted. Again, that would 
all the line to be removed elsewhere.

Thanks,

Joseph