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 13:30:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87wonc4rvg.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> 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]:60955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghZUK-0006D8-6O for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:31:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghZUE-0006ln-9h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:31:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghZUE-0006lO-3G for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:31:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ghZUD-0000oR-Mw for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:31:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87pnt44zc7.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 Hi Pierre, > I think I know what's happening: some packages are missing files because = they > were not properly packaged. With our current build system, this is almost > impossible to fix. > > I've never been able to use the importer. Anyways, as my previous email > pointed out, I think it's quite useless as it is. I wouldn=E2=80=99t say it=E2=80=99s useless. Although I=E2=80=99m certainl= y prone to writing useless code, this importer serves a need and allowed me to successfully create the many texlive-* packages we have now. I=E2=80=99ll admit, though, that it=E2=80=99s the one importer that I like = the least :) > I'm more and more convinced that rewriting the texlive-build-system cente= red > around texlive.tlpdb would work and is the right approach. Could you please outline what this would mean? -- Ricardo