Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed
From: Josh Buhl <uzs33d@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: Bug#190721: splitting of texdoctk is hosed
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 12:24:57 +0200
> Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> >>Extracting tetex-extra produces about 32800 1024 Kb blocks of data which
> >>is split up roughly like this:
> >>
> >>20758 blocks in /usr/share/texmf/fonts
> >>7456 blocks in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
> >>1518 blocks in /usr/share/texmf/omega
> >>60 blocks in /etc (including the conf files for texdoctk)
> >
> > Ah, this helps me much to grasp the contents
> > of tetex-extra.
>
> I guess you're being sarcastic here. I wasn't trying to tell you
> anything I thought you didn't know. This was just a precursor to what I
> wanted to say afterwards. I was under the impression that the main
> reason there is a tetex-extra package at all, was to make tetex-base
> smaller, so looking at what's taking up space isn't a bad idea, from my
> perspective. :-)
Ah, no, I'm not sarcastic. I believe you can easily
find I'm not a native English speaker frome my poor
English ;)
What helped me was not the size of each components
but an idea of splitting /usr/share/texmf/tex /usr/share/texmf/fonts
and /etc/texmf
I could understand the rough design of tetex-extra with
"dpkg -L | grep /usr/share/texmf/tex" etc.
> The only reason to have tetex-base depend on perl-tk, is so that
> texdoctk isn't broken, but it's broken anyway without the conffiles in
> tetex-extra.
>
> If there are so many users cry-babying about 7Mb, then stuff all the
> texdoctx stuff into tetex-extra and leave the dependency there. texdoctk
> *needs* to be in the same package as its conffiles are. I don't think
> it's good style to split up files from their configuration files. Like I
> said, that's just not the way debian works.
It was my mistake not to CC'ed to you but as I wrote in
another email (please see BTS #190721), texdoctk script
and the configuration files are came from different sources;
> Please note that texdoctk itself is in tetex-bin and
> supporting files are in tetex-extra, and tetex-bin and
> tetex-extra are built from different teTeX sources
> (tetex-bin from tetex-src-*.tar.gz and tetex-extra from
> tetex-texmf-*.tar.gz) so if we split off texdoctk
> then we need texdoctk-bin and texdoctk-conffiles(?)
> I hope you realize that I'm only making these comments to help, not to
> criticize, since I'm not at all worried about a few megabytes (still
> have over 1Gb free on a 3.5 Gb /usr) and everything works for me because
> I have tetex-extra installed. I believe Debian has the best, most
> aethetically pleasing design of any Linux Distribution, and I want to
> help keep it that way.
I guess I realize your point but I can't find resonable
solution yet.
Thanks, 2003.5.6(Tue)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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