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bug#27217: texlive is too big
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#27217: texlive is too big |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:34:25 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Hey Pierre,
> I'm so sorry for the poor wording, Ricardo, it was uncalled for. (Wrote in a
> haste.) What I meant is that it does not solve the current issue of "what
> file
> belongs to what package."
No worries :)
> It's not just the importer but our current approach to TeXlive that we've got
> to
> work out.
I agree. It’s always been messy and currently it’s pretty frustrating
to package or update TeXlive packages.
What I find most troubling is that sources are littered across the SVN
repository. Sometimes we’ve got simple .ins and .dtx files, but very
often we have a stray .sty or .tex file in some seemingly arbitary
directory and one needs to manually take care of adding these extra
source files to the native-inputs. This could be improved even before a
full overhaul of our TeXlive handling: add a convenience procedure that
takes a list of file names in the repository and collects them via SVN
as the source tree. Beats having to add extra build phases and the
like.
>> : I'm more and more convinced that rewriting the texlive-build-system
>> centered
>> : around texlive.tlpdb would work and is the right approach.
>>
>> Could you please outline what this would mean?
>
> Sure: if you look at the file, you'll see it's a textual database of all
> packages with their respective file. A possible solution that we could
> implement either as a build-system or an importer: lookup the package in the
> tlpdb
> (e.g. mflogo) and package all the corresponding file from the svn repo.
> Sounds
> simple enough. What do you think?
I don’t see this file in the texlive SVN repository. Where is it
hosted?
So, it’s a map of packages to file names? That would probably simplify
the importer. I don’t think it would help with the build system. Am I
missing something?
--
Ricardo
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Ricardo Wurmus <=
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- bug#27217: texlive is too big, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/10
- bug#27217: texlive is too big, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/10
- bug#27217: texlive is too big, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/10
- bug#27217: texlive is too big, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/10
- bug#27217: texlive is too big, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/10
bug#27217: texlive is too big, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/10