How to get dependency information for "to-be-added" packages?

[kristoffer.carlsson]

@GregVernon

Am I correct in thinking that Zstd_jll and Compat are packages that the command has acquired (via the web) and installed?

Yes.

@GregVernon

Am I also correct in thinking that the items in the long list existed in my base installation, but had to download / update via the web?

The list of versioned packages (like [f67ccb44] + HDF5 v0.13.2) are packages that you need but which version was already downloaded on your computer (from some previous Pkg command). So they didn’t need to be downloaded again. On another machine where you do Pkg.add they would need to get downloaded though.

The packages that do not have a version (like [2a0f44e3] + Base64) are “standard libraries” and comes bundled with Julia. They never need to be downloaded of the internet.

I am not sure what

@GregVernon

What I’m looking for is some way to make this determination either on my firewalled PC (which can’t run Pkg.add() ) or by parsing the resultant Pkg.add text output on my personal PC so I can figure out my next steps.

means. You can for example look in the C:\Users\Owner\.julia\environments\v1.3\Manifest.toml file to see all packages that are required.