Bug#564871: texlive-full: Please create a BD package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-full
> Version: 2009-7
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> as discussed in #564241: some maintainers don't like to specify all single
> packages they need for building the docs in the BDs. The reason is that the
> packages may change (some LaTeX classes move from one to the other, etc).
> Hence they specify texlive-full as BD. The is a waste of resources as that
> package pull ins megabytes of TeX documentation, which is not needed for
> building.
> Please create a package texlive-bd, which is a full TL installation minus
> docs.

Hm, shouldn't we rather restrict this to "full latex and fonts"?  I
admit that this is today most of texlive; but XeTeX-, LuaTeX- and
ConTeXt-related stuff is going to grow, and there's little chance that
they will be used much by build processes.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg