From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:47:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgvikmwl.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87tw3w7v1m.fsf@elephly.net> <87po1g2g43.fsf@gmail.com> <87fu2chu02.fsf@elephly.net> <87lgc42b7i.fsf@gmail.com> <87va2wdfq8.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhs84urk.fsf@elephly.net> <87h8egd7zd.fsf@gnu.org> <878szooiix.fsf@elephly.net> <87a7jzy6ae.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgxr62p1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87munzh8kj.fsf@elephly.net> <87imynsgxg.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1j3h7k4.fsf@elephly.net> <87imx1e541.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <86bm2skozm.fsf@fsfe.org> <87a7i9ww82.fsf@atlas.engineer> <87y35ft1p7.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87imwgsh64.fsf@gnu.org> <87wokulf6y.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6WAj-0000nX-6i for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 04:02:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6VxC-00017Q-Cw for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:48:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6VxC-000178-73 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:48:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h6VxC-0006in-2I for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 03:48:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87wokulf6y.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus , Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Jelle Licht , 27217@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> So TeX Live packages would use =E2=80=98texlive-fetch=E2=80=99 instead o= f =E2=80=98svn-fetch=E2=80=99 or >> similar, right? >> >> If that=E2=80=99s 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 =E2=80=9Ctexlive-fetch=E2=80=9D 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 =E2=80=9Ctexlive-bin=E2=80=9D) is done =E2=80=9Coffline=E2= =80=9D when using the importer, > i.e. when generating package definitions. Exactly, I think this is the part that Ludovic misunderstood. =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlyR8AoACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH+n6wf9HSSEsuUe4xHgEAVZhTzC9WWZEYlrd+ZqbovI9AaORcN3JhFnkrXjwTgZ 0TB7LkUHjQzDqLPKksP6RwPAWj+xaElgLRHk73fV1xOx7qA3RYirX7+6EueZmwOl bnKRKRve6fv/PKCabAGpP65EwPCUUYrDUjgXBqc4YACHRe0wTz+JnGGbbM9ryuta LKjJ30pGVrTiqnikWpo7GJe+j9ey4BA67FirxJT0KlOVgxkWmde0KyIhsADXScGZ uKjouCquEYCJwcXdafAQVJq4vFEVjjoAjtl5TtSfeTSPY3GfeK4HGN00jH2KyMzB uvv17ddOC/8pdJNpbMfrPALK/P69XQ== =Dbdg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--