[Slackbuilds-users] Tex Live 2014 - Update / Part 2

[Eugen Wissner]

Right, it can be a dependency for documentation building; now I understand
why it's needed. And your last suggestion sounds good (with bundled docs
package + remainder package)


2014-07-01 7:44 GMT+02:00 Ryan P.C. McQuen <ryanpcmcquen at gmail.com>:

> I like it.  :^)
>
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> > On Jun 30, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:10:34 -0500
> > Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, here's the next round of this stuff...
> >>
> >> I made some comments in the tarball-sizes.txt file that might need
> >> feedback:  http://rlworkman.net/TL2014-testing/tarball-sizes.txt
> >>
> >> Everything except actual tarballs and such is here:
> >> http://rlworkman.net/TL2014-testing/
> >>
> >> The make-slackware-plists.sh, helpers/*, and texlive.tlpdb are used
> >> for generating the lists, while the tarball-contents/ directory
> >> contains text files of exactly what the name implies.
> >>
> >> Obviously there's still some tweaking to do.  Feedback is desired.
> >
> >
> > Given the feedback I've received (some onlist and some offlist), here's
> > what I'm thinking will be a good compromise for everyone.
> >
> > In the texlive-texmf-tetex archive (the name might need to change though
> > as it will be more than just the tetex stuff), we'd have the contents of
> > the texlive-texmf-tetex archive mentioned above *plus* the context stuff
> > and the latexextra stuff, for total sizes of roughly:
> >
> >  299 MB -- texlive-texmf-tetex
> >  790 MB -- texlive-texmf-tetex-doc
> >
> > The rest of everything would be what's currently stated as being in the
> > "fontsextra" and "full" archives, for total sizes of roughly:
> >
> >  251 MB -- texlive-texmf-remainder
> >  220 MB -- texlive-texmf-remainder-doc
> >
> > Again, the name would have to be changed, but you get the idea.
> >
> > The only drawback would be that there is absolutely no way to ship any
> > of the docs as part of Slackware.  On that note, perhaps it would be
> > better to just bundle all of the docs together as a single archive,
> > meaning that users would (ideally) get a functional TeX Live from
> > Slackware, with all docs available as a ~1GB package from SBo and any
> > other texmf (mainly fonts) available as a ~250MB package from SBo.
> >
> > This still puts about 300MB of texmf in Slackware (assuming it makes it
> > that far), but we still have the compiled sources for the texlive
> binaries
> > *and* we have to host the sources for that -- I don't recall how big the
> > binaries are but the source archive is ~42MB.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -RW
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