[Mageia-dev] Looking for victim^w^wvolunteer for Texlive package

[Anne nicolas]

2011/7/6 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org>:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Kira wrote:
>
>> 在 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:09:30 +0800, Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>寫道:
>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> Here is an interesting topic :).Texlive is one of the biggest package
>>> we have for now. Of course split is needed but we postponed it after
>>> Mageia 1 to have a look on it. Now here we go!
>>>
>>> It needs first to have a look on the way we want to split it, Fedora
>>> one (zillions of sub-packages) or our own one based on the wau
>>> different components are used.
>>>
>>> Comments, proposals welcome
>>>
>>
>> First: Which version? Texlive 2007 or later ones build on luaTex?
>>
>> I have heard that after 2008, building texlive is almost impossible....
>
> Texlive 2010 is already available in mageia, so I believe this is about
> improving the existing package(s). That consists mostly of splitting up
> texlive-texmf(?), but maybe also adding a dependency on a minimal set of
> fonts to texlive. Currently the texmf subpackage can be removed while most
> of the programs in the texlive package are probably useless without fonts.

Indeed. Package is for now much too monolitic which does not help to
reduce size of some installs.
>
>
>    Christiaan
>



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Anne
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