.tlpsrc files and package dependencies

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Tue Jun 2 00:51:52 CEST 2020


> --------------------------------------------------------
> # Last checked 2020-06-01.
> hard dep1
> hard dep2
> # This package only needed when running with xetex:
> soft xedep
> --------------------------------------------------------

Looks fine to me, but maybe we can make it less noisy? hard deps are on
a line itself, and soft deps have a + prefix or so
	dep1
	dep2
	+xedep
?

> We can't do anything with soft dependencies. TL != Debian.

Yes, we don't have anything like Debian's "Recommends" or "Suggests".

Best

Norbert

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