[tex-live] beamer: has more dependencies?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard writes:
 > Karl Berry a écrit :
 > > Maybe.  One problem is that too many dependencies is just as bad as too
 > > few.  Are xcolor and ifxetex *always* required?
 > 
 > xcolor is not required in article mode using the noxcolor option OTOH,
 > you rarely compile a beamer document *only* in article mode :-) So I
 > would say yes, it is always required.
 > 
 > ifxetex is required by hyperref and other packages (probably graphicx,
 > didn't check) which are always loaded by beamer.
 > 
 > Now, both xcolor and ifxetex are in collection-latexrecommended (as well
 > as beamer). I thought our policy concerning dependencies was that people
 > are assumed to install collectionwise. So here the dependency would be
 > correct, since only pgf is not in the same collection as beamer.

Hi Manuel,

texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty

works under Plain TeX too.  Seems that it makes more sense to install
it unconditionally instead of putting it into a LaTeX related package.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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