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Subject: Re: Texlive-texmf
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:04:17 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> We don=E2=80=99t want people to have to do that, do we?  :-)
>> Personally, I don=E2=80=99t want to have to think beyond =E2=80=9Cguix p=
ackage -i
>> texlive=E2=80=9D.
>
> It is only about choice, you can always just install texlive if you are
> ready to download gigabytes of data!
>
> Personally, I like to just download texlive-bin and to build texlive loca=
lly
> from a tarball stored locally on my hard disk, to avoid downloading all t=
he
> data.

I understand, but this is hack to work around =E2=80=9Cbroken packaging=E2=
=80=9D on our
side (=E2=80=9Cbroken=E2=80=9D in the sense that it sucks in comparison to =
what, say,
Debian provides), not a great recipe that we want users to care about.

> This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the
> internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake,
> since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion.
>
> So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days.

OK.

Ludo=E2=80=99.