Dependencies

[Joseph Wright]

On 07/11/2019 08:42, David Carlisle wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 08:38, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, Joseph Wright wrote:
>>> P.S. I hope this type of work is useful!
>>
>> Good question - not sure about that, because I guess most install
>> texlive-full. But who knows. It is in any case useful to have the
>> information.
>>
> 
> Most _people_ do yes but this is prompted by automated testing on
> travis CI  etc where, even if you cache the results, it is useful to
> build a really minimal set that just can test whatever it is you are
> testing.
> 
> David

To be clear, I'm looking at it for the automated-testing reason: it's 
useful to only list packages you are *actively* loading, and to leave 
the dependencies to tlmgr to sort out ...

Joseph