Comment (by Roland Haas):

In today’s ET call it was decided to add lstlistings to the default Cactus packages if possible (ie if included in “base” typical LaTeX installation on macOS and Linux and if ok for the TeX to HTML conversion).

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2824/carpetx-documentation-file-uses-extra