Re: More fine-grained control in texlive?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:

> Ok, I can live with this (but the splitting of -doc would be a good
> thing for users, I think).
>
> I also want to make a stripped down live CD for some (Mathematician)
> friends and this would help quite a lot.

I just spotted this on debian-devel, in a mail from Ian Jackson about
Debconf07:

,----
| Other dpkg stuff
| 
| [...]
| I reviewed an implementation of `filters' (excluding certain files
| from being installed based on filename patterns).  There are lots of
| uses for this feature; in the particular case, embedded developers
| would like to exclude documentation and other bulky materials to
| permit installation on small systems.
`----

This could be useful for such cases, too.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)