Re: Future versions of teTeX, and TeXlive as a replacement
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 19:07 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > That's another possibility. A -src package for every texlive-* package
> > would be package bloat, but one -src package for each source package (no
> > pun intended ;-) might be ok/
>
> I can do this later, or? I guess it is not *necessary* to have a source
> package.
No, I don't think it is necessary. Actually the next part in the
discussion read:
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| On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 20:13 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
| > 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.
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| That's also possible. Whoever want's to look into the dtx files can get
| them from CTAN, anyway. However, this also raises the question just how
| different TeX Live in Debian should be from upstream.
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:-)
cheerio
ralf
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