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bug#27217: texlive is too big
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Pierre Neidhardt |
Subject: |
bug#27217: texlive is too big |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:47:22 +0100 |
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.
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Pierre Neidhardt
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