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Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:

>> “r-svglite” is optional and was reported by my modified updater, which
>> compares the current inputs with the inputs a fresh import would
>> suggest.  If optional inputs are added it would be good to comment on
>> why they were added.  I probably wouldn’t have removed them in that
>> case.
>
> OK, np, pushed as e4b6c565beef27a1ce2203a9bc119e84a126e5e0.

Thanks!

> I wonder if the importer could import the previous version again and 
> compare to those, rather than just the current definition to avoid other 
> situations like this.

Would this have helped in this instance?  Did the previous version
*depend* on r-svglite?  If it did, how could an editor like me have
known that it was still valuable as an optional input?

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Ricardo

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