From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>, 27217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:01:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imwa4o9b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgvikmwl.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:47:22 +0100")
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> So TeX Live packages would use ‘texlive-fetch’ instead of ‘svn-fetch’ or
>>> similar, right?
>>>
>>> If that’s the case, then merely computing the derivation of one of these
>>> would require fetching the tldb database, which would be problematic.
>>> Is this correct?
>>
>> I think there has been a misunderstanding here. Pierre seems to be
>> using the name “texlive-fetch” for two different things.
>
> No, the "texlive-fetch" I meant was Ricardo's idea. We are talking
> about the same thing.
>
>> The extraction of information from the plain text database (which is
>> included with “texlive-bin”) is done “offline” when using the importer,
>> i.e. when generating package definitions.
>
> Exactly, I think this is the part that Ludovic misunderstood.
OK, got it, thanks for explaining.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-22 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-03 19:03 bug#27217: texlive is too big Ricardo Wurmus
2017-11-23 20:51 ` bug#27217: break up TeXlive for guix Matt Wette
2018-01-23 13:20 ` bug#27217: texlive is too big Mathieu Lirzin
2018-05-28 12:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 11:07 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-28 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 12:53 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-12-15 14:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-10 9:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 12:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 16:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 16:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 17:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 18:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 18:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 19:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 11:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-13 12:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 9:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17 9:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 10:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 10:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 11:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-02 14:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-03 14:32 ` Jelle Licht
2019-03-05 8:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-16 12:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-18 8:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-19 21:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-20 7:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-22 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-17 10:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-15 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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