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bug#27217: texlive is too big
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#27217: texlive is too big |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:01:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> So TeX Live packages would use ‘texlive-fetch’ instead of ‘svn-fetch’ or
>>> similar, right?
>>>
>>> If that’s 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 “texlive-fetch” 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 “texlive-bin”) is done “offline” when using the importer,
>> i.e. when generating package definitions.
>
> Exactly, I think this is the part that Ludovic misunderstood.
OK, got it, thanks for explaining.
Ludo’.