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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:01:36 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>, 27217@debbugs.gnu.org

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> So TeX Live packages would use =E2=80=98texlive-fetch=E2=80=99 instead =
of =E2=80=98svn-fetch=E2=80=99 or
>>> similar, right?
>>>
>>> If that=E2=80=99s 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 =E2=80=9Ctexlive-fetch=E2=80=9D 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 =E2=80=9Ctexlive-bin=E2=80=9D) is done =E2=80=9Coffline=E2=
=80=9D 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=E2=80=99.