From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 27217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:39:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87munzh8kj.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgxr62p1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> And this highlights another big issue with our current build system: it's very
> hard to know which file is already packaged. It could very well be that some
> texlive packages have conflicts simply because we've accidentally packaged the
> same files in different packages.
It’s not a problem of the build system. The build system works fine for
ins/dtx files.
This is a problem with the TeX Live distribution. It does not consist
of packages for the most part, but represents a directory tree that
is meant to be unpacked in place.
In some cases we use upstream packages as in the case of
“texlive-fonts-lm”, which provides a zip file that can be unpacked into
a texmf-dist tree. In other cases all we can do is take the TeX Live
upstream sources from various SVN directories.
It sucks, but I don’t see how you could do much better given this
distribution method.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-17 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-03 19:03 bug#27217: texlive is too big Ricardo Wurmus
2017-11-23 20:51 ` bug#27217: break up TeXlive for guix Matt Wette
2018-01-23 13:20 ` bug#27217: texlive is too big Mathieu Lirzin
2018-05-28 12:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 11:07 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-28 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 12:53 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-12-15 14:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-10 9:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 12:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 16:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 16:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 17:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 18:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 18:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 19:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 11:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-13 12:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 9:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17 9:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 10:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-17 10:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 11:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-02 14:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-03 14:32 ` Jelle Licht
2019-03-05 8:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-16 12:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-18 8:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-19 21:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-20 7:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-22 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17 10:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-15 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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