Re: Future versions of teTeX, and TeXlive as a replacement
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> BTW, one of the reasons for the large size of TeX Live packages is that
> they include the sources in TEXMF/source. With teTeX, tetex-src brings
> in another 120M. I guess it is similar for TeX Live. Could these files
> be compressed?
Why not install them in a separate package?
Or not install them at all. I think the reason why the sources in
tetex-src are *installed* is simply that you can't have a source package
without a binary package, and the sources are in a tarball separate from
tetex-base. If they were included, I don't see why we would need
tetex-src at all.
While adapting the latex.tpm from texlive to tetex, I also noticed that
the documentation sources are installed, not only the pdf files. I
don't think this makes sense, and it probably contributes considerably
to the package size.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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