From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-texmf-minimal: Prune in snippet. Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:41:55 +0100 Message-ID: <878ts129jg.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20161129113203.6922-1-rekado@elephly.net> <87mvgi49gi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBr6G-0002yY-5X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:42:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBr6F-0004bT-44 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:42:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mvgi49gi.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-texmf-minimal)[arguments]: Move contents >> of "prune" build phase... >> [source]: ...to a snippet here. > > It looks nicer this way, but a possible downside is the extra derivation > and recompression of the patched source. > > No strong opinion here though. My motivation was probably misguided. My hope was that building “texlive-texmf-minimal” would no longer require the very large download of the full texlive-texmf sources but only the much smaller pruned sources. If this is the case I think it would be advantageous for users. However, if building from source would cause them to download the big tarball first, then patch and repack, and then build the package — that would obviously not be great. Do we provide substitutes for snippet-patched sources? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net