From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-texmf-minimal: Prune in snippet. Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:59:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87shq7sqaz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161129113203.6922-1-rekado@elephly.net> <87mvgi49gi.fsf@gnu.org> <878ts129jg.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCRu2-0005pH-7P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:59:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCRtw-0002Gp-Sx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:59:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878ts129jg.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:41:55 +0100") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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 > =E2=80=9Ctexlive-texmf-minimal=E2=80=9D 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 > =E2=80=94 that would obviously not be great. > > Do we provide substitutes for snippet-patched sources? Yes, as long as there=E2=80=99s a derivation, there=E2=80=99s a substitute. But really, we should get rid of this monolithic texlive and import individual CTAN packages, while still providing a big texlive meta-package for those who want the 4=C2=A0GiBs. Ludo=E2=80=99.