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Re: Purpose of source packages?



Christian Schwarz:
> What's the exact purpose of the .tar.gz source packages and the diff? I'm
> asking because I want to create a package for the metapost system, that's
> like metafont but produces postscript output. The currently available
> distribution is a patch against the latest webc, 6.3 I think, which is a
> tar.gz (>5MB I think). But the webc distrib contains everything that's
> needed for a whole TeX/MF systems--much more than I need here. 

Would it be possible to integrage metapost into our Debianized web2c
source? That is, so that the Debianized web2c also produces metapost,
in addition to the current TeX and metafont packages.

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