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Is it possible to change the options a package was invoked with after the fact? That is, could one define \OopsIWishIHadWrittenDraftWhenIncludingGraphicx so that

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[final]{graphicx}
\OopsIWishIHadWrittenDraftWhenIncludingGraphicx
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

would produce the same result as 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

?

Hagen von Eitzen
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  • Have you tried using \usepackage a second time with different parameters? – sfat Nov 01 '13 at 12:56
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    Depends on the option. In your example you only need to use \makeatletter\Gin@drafttrue\makeatother. But not every option is so simple. – Ulrike Fischer Nov 01 '13 at 12:58
  • In general, the answer is "no". The problem is that an entirely different branch of the package code may execute, depending on which options are passed to \usepackage[...]{...}. – jub0bs Nov 01 '13 at 13:57

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In general, it cannot. However, with some packages, providing a package option is equivalent to calling a command in the preamble after the package has been loaded. These include for example:

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  • geometry
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