Dependencies

[Joseph Wright]

On 07/11/2019 09:02, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, David Carlisle wrote:
>> Yes, since the earliest drafts of latex2e latex goes to some lengths
>> to avoid the primitive missing file error loop where you have to give
>> it a file.
>> so it does \n \openin and \ifeof check first and only use \input if
>> the file is there and raises a normal \errormessage if not.
> 
> And does breaks on-the-fly installation via hooking into mktextex. I
> know it is not enabled by default, but it can be enabled, call into
> tlmgr, and install the necessary files!
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert

Can it?

BTW, MiKTeX copes with LaTeX, I guess as it checks for \openin files as 
well as \input files ...

Joseph