Re: Opinions sought on TeX Live packaging

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 30 18:38, Ken Brown wrote:
> TeX Live upstream has thousands of packages, grouped into
> "collections".  Cygwin's TeX Live distribution, as originally
> packaged by Yaakov, has one texlive-collection-* package for each
> upstream collection.  I've just discovered that about 1800 of the
> upstream packages, falling into about 40 collections, have
> documentation that is currently not included in the Cygwin packages.
> I don't know if this was on oversight on Yaakov's part or a
> deliberate decision to omit most of the documentation.
> 
> In any case, I think that the documentation is an integral part of
> TeX Live and needs to be part of the Cygwin distribution.  If I
> simply add it to the texlive-collection-* packages, however, some of
> them drastically increase in size.  For example, the installation
> tarball for texlive-collection-latex would increase from about 1MB
> to about 40MB. And for texlive-collection-latexextra it would
> increase from under 10MB to over 300MB.
> 
> My inclination is to create new texlive-collection-*-doc packages,
> at least for the most commonly used collections and/or for the
> collections that have a lot of documentation.  Ubuntu appears to do
> something like this.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=texlive shows the
> following documentation packages:
> 
>   texlive-base-bin-doc
>   texlive-fonts-extra-doc
>   texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
>   texlive-humanities-doc
>   texlive-latex-base-doc
>   texlive-latex-extra-doc
>   texlive-latex-recommended-doc
>   texlive-metapost-doc
>   texlive-pictures-doc
>   texlive-pstricks-doc
>   texlive-publishers-doc
> 
> Before going ahead with this, I'd like to know if people think it's
> a good idea.

texlive is alredy a big beast as it is and there are quite a lot of
people out there which got the loads of packages because they updated
via setup without ever seeing the announcement.  I like the idea to
keep the docs separate, given their size.


Corinna

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