TeX Live and dependencies
DavidFirth opened this issue · 4 comments
Matthias has kindly alerted me to the fact that it is possible to install pdfjam via TeX Live but to then have some dependencies missing from your installation. (The example given by Matthias was that pdflscape.sty was missing from his installation and that caused an error when running pdfjam.)
I do not know enough about TeX Live to be able to solve this (and regrettably I have no time to find out). Matthias kindly pointed me to information at https://tug.org/texlive/pkgcontrib.html#deps, but it seems (from that information) that CTAN's administrators "do not particularly recommend" doing what is described there.
If somebody else knows how to fix this (including tracking reliably all of the dependencies!) then of course that would be good. I suppose that a simple solution could be just to remove pdfjam from TeX Live?
There are examples of how to check for dependencies in similar forks of this project, such as:
https://github.com/jenom/pdfbook2/blob/master/pdfbook2/pdfbook2#L144
Thanks for the tip, @GuillaumeFromage; I would welcome a PR that implements this.
If you could point out exactly where you need those checks done, that would help, or a list of dependencies that you know are needed out of TeXlive? Or I can just implement the example mentioned, and wait for issues for the rest.
I don't know the list TBH, so I'd be quite happy with your second suggestion: implement the example mentioned and wait for issues. I consider pdfjam to be in maintenance mode, so I don't think wholesale improvements that have no immediate pay-off are worth the effort.