Bug#100332: New package splitting scheme for teTeX in Debian
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 19:51 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Do you think it should be possible to have combinations like
> "tetex-bin, tetex-base plus ConTeXt from texlive"?
Would be nice, but not strictly necessary.
> Or do you think that
> someone will want tetex-extra on top of some parts of texlive?
Unlikely.
> As far as I can see it, the only coexistence that we should really try
> to make possible is that one can install fonts or LaTeX packages from
> texlive if they do not exist in tetex at all.
ACK
> And this won't depend on
> our splitting scheme, AFAICS.
Obviously, I am not sure about this. Let's say I want to install the
'bera' fonts from TeX Live, since they are not in teTeX. AFAIK I would
have to install the 'texlive-fontsextra' package for this. Looking at
the tpm-file for this collection, I see several fonts that are both in
texlive-fontsextra and in (future) tetex-extra: antt, bbm, bbold,
belleek, cmbright, doublestroke, eulervm, fpl, rsfs (the latter two
should be in tetex-base since they are part of PSNFSS) and sauter. I
might have overlooked some. Similar for texlive-latexextra which
contains many interesting things but also, eg, beton, ccaption,
currvita, dinbrief, dk-bib, enumitem, soul, ... all of which are also in
tetex. I am sure I have missed quite a few.
I could imagine to put nothing from texlive-fontsextra and
texlive-latexextra into tetex-base (fpl and rsfs are tricky then). In
that case, those two packages could be installed /instead/ of
tetex-extra. But installing instead of tetex-extra is not a good
solution since there are many more things in there.
I don't know if their is a good solution to install these
packages in addition to tetex-extra. At least if we don't want to
introduce separate TEXMF trees and live with a slight duplication of
files.
> > If one has to split tex/latex anyway,
> > one might also move some large packages that probably aren't used as
> > build-dependence. Incomplete list with decreasing size: custom-bib,
> > koma-script, minitoc, jurabib, memoir, ntgclass ...
>
> If someone finds time to sort that out, this would be worth trying.
In principle, this is soemthing that I would be willing to do. But I
won't have much time in the near future .
cheerio
ralf
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