Re: Texlive

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> the attached patch does what its commit message says. It is the fruit of many
> trials and discussions with Ludovic. The tricky thing was to link to the
> kpsewhich binary in texlive-bin, but to make it take its configuration file
> texmf.cnf from texlive-data. I ended up wrapping all binaries and providing
> them with the suitable value of TEXMFCNF.

I don’t want to spoil the party ;-), but could it be that there are
programs outside of TeX Live that use libkpathsea & co.?

> The real goal of the patch is to make it easy to create a second package
> texlive-small in a second step. This package shall inherit from texlive,
> but have as input texlive-texmf-small, which is created as texlive-texmf,
> but after deleting a big chunk of data; I would say, all the documentation
> and most of the fonts. Such a smaller package could be a native input for
> packages creating their documentation from a latex source, for instance.

That would be nice.

Thanks for your hard work on this!

Ludo’.