Re: More fine-grained control in texlive?
Hi Rogério!
On Mit, 25 Jul 2007, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Splitting off the documentation is feasible (I even have a "that would
> > be sort of okay, I guess" by Markus Kohm, one of the upstream authors
> > who advocate for "only distribute as a complete set"),
>
> This is excellent!
I guess we can put this -doc splitting on the TODO list, but it will
need some severe reworking of the scripts, no idea when we can do this.
First on the list is AFAIS the hmtl/xml integration, Frank has done some
work on this.
> > Splitting the larger packages in pieces makes only sense if it's done
> > upstream, because we mirror the upstream divisions.
>
> Well, TeX Live could get improvements from Debian too. :-)
I am feeding many things back into TeX Live upstream, since I am working
there, too. But splitting the collections is non-trivial, and you have
to have a good rationale WHY you want to do it. Just the size will not
do it, Karl will not agree.
> least, tl-fonts-extra is around 120MB. Doing a dpkg -c on the package, I
> see that we have mostly documentation on these packages.
I made a size list once, some packages were the doc part is much bigger
(relatively and absolutely) then the data part:
texlive-base-bin_2007-5_i386.deb
4.2M texmf-texlive
11M doc
texlive-humanities_2007-3_all.deb
1.5M texmf-texlive
11M doc
texlive-latex-base_2007-4_all.deb
7.7M texmf-texlive
37M doc
texlive-latex-extra_2007-3_all.deb
20M texmf-texlive
104M doc
texlive-latex-recommended_2007-4_all.deb
13M texmf-texlive
24M doc
texlive-metapost_2007-5_i386.deb
1.9M texmf-texlive
11M doc
texlive-pstricks_2007-3_all.deb
2.0M texmf-texlive
32M doc
texlive-publishers_2007-3_all.deb
6.0M texmf-texlive
16M doc
texlive-science_2007-3_all.deb
2.0M texmf-texlive
9.5M doc
So I guess splitting the -doc parts would make sense.
> Since I am in the New Maintainer queue now (Yay!) I think that I can try
> to help you more effectively. In other words, read: I would be willing
> to help with the tex-maint group.
Maintainer status is not needed. I was myself long a alioth -guest and
worked on the stuff. If you want you can look a the perl scripts
generating the packages and make some patches to automatically split the
stuff. Send me the patches then.
Best wishes
Norbert
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