Re: TL2009 binary packages
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> did we come to a conclusion what to do with all the binaries?
No, since I didn't understand what you wrote and decided to re-read it
later...
> > I wonder whether it makes sense to split of a 633 kByte and even a 34
> > kByte package from a 5,8 MByte package. The Installed-Size of
> > tl-base-binaries is 12864, I assume that is 12864 kByte.
>
> Hmm the total size of the i386-bin folder in TeX Live is 137M, probably
> because we have shared libs and no asy(mptote) and many others not built
> it is really much smaller.
>
> In this case, one package texlive-binaries would be fine.
Ah, parsing "we" as "TL in Debian", you just think loudly why the Debian
package is "only" 5.8MByte compared to 137MByte.
> Do we
> merge them all into one bunch or do we keep the separate?
As I said, I see two options: Either one texlive-binaries package, or
only splitting off texlive-binaries-xetex (with about half the size of
the complete one).
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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