Bug#419032: texlive-base: ships too many documentation files

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Michael, hi all Debian TeX Maintainers,

On Fre, 13 Apr 2007, Michael Prokop wrote:
> But /usr/share/doc/texlive* ships more than 80MB though I don't have
> any doc-packages (besides texlive-doc-base which is a dependency of
> texlive-base) on my system :
> 
> # du -sh /usr/share/doc/texlive*
> 4.4M    /usr/share/doc/texlive-base
> 9.9M    /usr/share/doc/texlive-base-bin
> 92K     /usr/share/doc/texlive-common
> 1.8M    /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc
> 1.1M    /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-base
> 3.1M    /usr/share/doc/texlive-fonts-recommended
> 332K    /usr/share/doc/texlive-lang-german
> 37M     /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-base
> 23M     /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-recommended
> 
> :(
> 
> Any chance that you can provide all the big files (especially the
> PDF files) in a separate, optional doc-package?

First, I don't consider this a real big package tohave 80Mb lying
around. Today's disks are big and fast.

Second, separating this stuff would be a big diversion from upstreams
collection system. I guess we could build a way around this, but I am
not convinced that this makes a big advantage.

All here, other opinions, should we look into a separation? I am against
this, but if the general opinion is pro I can take a look at the perl
code again ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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