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Package: tetex-extra
Version: 0.9.990406-1
This package is currently huge and monolithic and takes up _way_ more
space then really necessary for the things I use. I have a 600 meg
linux partition, and while this is uncommon in this age of huge diskspace,
it is not unusual. This package seems to contain a great deal of
seperate independent subsystems, and all of them together take up a huge
amount of space. At the very least, it would be nice to split it into
the fonts and the actual tex stuff... my quick tests pegged the fonts in
this package as taking up 20 megs, which is more than just about anything
else I have installed. Far better would be to split it up further into
individual packages, each providing a single service (eg, a bibtex package,
a ams[la]tex package, maybe even seperate packages for the euler fonts, the
<insert name of alternative font here> fonts, etc.). This wouldn't
necessarily be that much extra work for the package maintainer, considering
how automated the build system is (and there could just be a tetex-misc
package that catches anything that doesn't fit into it's own package/is
added upstream), and would provide massive benefits. For the transition,
obviously, one would just have to replace tetex-extra with an empty package
that depends on all the new ones.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux WyrmWeyr 2.2.4 #17 Wed Mar 24 13:44:58 PST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii tetex-base 0.9.990406-1 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 teTeX binary files
ii dpkg-perl 0.1-2hamm1 Perl interface modules for dpkg
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Hi,
splitting of teTeX will not happen, since it's dead upstream and will be
dropped from Debian as soon as etch is released.
However, TeXlive is already available in sarge and has much smaller
binary packages and a more sophisticated splitting. Therefore I'm
closing these two bugs
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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