Re: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-texmf-minimal: Prune in snippet.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> 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?

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Ricardo

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