Re: Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space
On Sa, 12 Mai 2012, David Starner wrote:
> stand-alone component under 1 MB that can't be installed without
> adding 450 MB of other stuff, perhaps it's time for more fine-grained
> dependencies.
Hahahaha - we split TeX LIve already in 50 or more packages ...
I proposed a complete splitting in the beginnen, that would be
about 3000 new packages ... that was of course rejected.
I could make it even worse by just packaging all of texlive into
*ONE* package which would amount to 2.5G or so...
BTW, why do you complain? To use texpower you *anyway* need TeX?
So it will be installed *anyway*. And if you don't want, don't
install the documentation, and it will be much leaner.
Enjoy, but we will not split TeX Live further, we keep to what
is done upstream in TeX Live, and that is reasonable.
Best wishes
Norbert
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