Dependencies

[Norbert Preining]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, Joseph Wright wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> Can it?

Yes, I have done that already as testing. Plain tex or \input works.
LaTeX not. I have the scripts somewhere if you are interested.

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

I haven't looked into the sources, maybe they hack directly into the
kpathsea library?

Best

Norbert

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