Splitting of texlive-bin's binary package
Hi all,
$ lh ../*2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 frank frank 112K 18. Jun 22:20 ../libkpathsea5_2009~svn13813-1~2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 frank frank 152K 18. Jun 22:20 ../libkpathsea-dev_2009~svn13813-1~2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 frank frank 5,8M 18. Jun 22:20 ../texlive-base-binaries_2009~svn13813-1~2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 frank frank 633K 18. Jun 22:20 ../texlive-extra-binaries_2009~svn13813-1~2_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 frank frank 34K 18. Jun 22:20 ../texlive-lang-binaries_2009~svn13813-1~2_i386.deb
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.
$ ll debian/texlive-base-binaries/usr/bin/ | sort -r -g -k 5 | head -20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 7709836 18. Jun 22:20 xetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 744856 18. Jun 22:20 xdvi-xaw
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 682908 18. Jun 22:20 xdvipdfmx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 647920 18. Jun 22:20 pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 449032 18. Jun 22:20 mpost
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 447336 18. Jun 22:20 aleph
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 281144 18. Jun 22:20 tex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 254116 18. Jun 22:20 mf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 252296 18. Jun 22:20 mf-nowin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 166948 18. Jun 22:20 dvips
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 129848 18. Jun 22:20 tcdialog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 93304 18. Jun 22:20 omfonts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 91832 18. Jun 22:20 bibtex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 79796 18. Jun 22:20 makeindex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 51264 18. Jun 22:20 odvicopy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 48074 18. Jun 22:20 updmap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 46760 18. Jun 22:20 mft
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 44236 18. Jun 22:20 texconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 36316 18. Jun 22:20 gftodvi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 frank frank 36012 18. Jun 22:20 odvitype
One thing that really seems to make sense here, when looking at both
size and dependencies, would be to split of xetex, which makes up more
thatn half the Installed-Size. After that, we'd have a Package of about
3,5 MByte, and still splitting of 633 kByte is of arguable value.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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