bug#27217: texlive is too big

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> So TeX Live packages would use ‘texlive-fetch’ instead of ‘svn-fetch’ or
>>> similar, right?
>>>
>>> If that’s the case, then merely computing the derivation of one of these
>>> would require fetching the tldb database, which would be problematic.
>>> Is this correct?
>>
>> I think there has been a misunderstanding here.  Pierre seems to be
>> using the name “texlive-fetch” for two different things.
>
> No, the "texlive-fetch" I meant was Ricardo's idea.  We are talking
> about the same thing.
>
>> The extraction of information from the plain text database (which is
>> included with “texlive-bin”) is done “offline” when using the importer,
>> i.e. when generating package definitions.
>
> Exactly, I think this is the part that Ludovic misunderstood.

OK, got it, thanks for explaining.

Ludo’.