From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:01:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8eg49rq.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87tw3w7v1m.fsf@elephly.net> <87po1g2g43.fsf@gmail.com> <87fu2chu02.fsf@elephly.net> <87lgc42b7i.fsf@gmail.com> <87va2wdfq8.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnt44zc7.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87wonc4rvg.fsf@elephly.net> <87o98o4qwn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87muo84jcu.fsf@elephly.net> <87ftu04i37.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1jc4hmf.fsf@elephly.net> <87ef9k4d6i.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87imyw4a9i.fsf@elephly.net> <87o98ocpf3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghfae-0008JO-3u for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:02:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghfac-0005D5-OV for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:02:04 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghfac-0005Cp-Kl for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:02:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ghfac-0003xE-GL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:02:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87o98ocpf3.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: 27217@debbugs.gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Yes, the SVN repo does include generated files. That=E2=80=99s not grea= t, but >> we can choose to ignore those files (as we do in other projects). > > And the builder should take care not to discard .sty / .cls files that ar= e not > going to be generated. I believe that in all cases the basename remains = the > same between .dtx/.ins and .sty/.cls. Then it's easy to know which one t= o keep and > which one to discards. Well, we do ignore the generated files already whenever we can. > So what do you think of the tlpdb approach for a new tex-build-system? I don=E2=80=99t know what exactly this entails. I=E2=80=99m happy to see p= atches for this. Anything that improves the current state of TeXlive support in Guix would be worth looking into. -- Ricardo