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[PATCH] gnu: Add mathjax.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley <at> openmailbox.org>
Cc: 27049 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27049: [PATCH] gnu: Add mathjax.
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 19:41:28 +0200

Hello,

Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley <at> openmailbox.org> skribis:

> Arun Isaac 於 2017-05-24 07:43 寫道:
>> * gnu/packages/web.scm (mathjax): New variable.
>> [...]
>> +
>> +         (let ((install-dir (string-append %output "/share/webapps/mathjax"))
>> +               (tar (string-append (assoc-ref %build-inputs "tar") "/bin/tar"))
>> +               (path (string-append (assoc-ref %build-inputs "gzip") "/bin")))
>> +           (mkdir-p install-dir)
>> +           (chdir install-dir)
>> +           (setenv "PATH" path)
>> +           (system* tar "xvf" (assoc-ref %build-inputs "source") "--strip" "1")))))
> This is installing many extraneous files like .gitignore, .npmignore,
> README.md, CONTRIBUTING, LICENSE, docs/, test/, latest.js. It may be
> best start with an 'unpack phase, and then install the needed files to
> the output directory.
> This package is around 178MiB like it is, and most of that due to the
> fonts. Would it be better to break this into two packages, mathjax, and
> font-mathjax?

Also, Arun: is this package really source code?  Or does it contain
“minified” code and also bundles all its dependencies (which would not
be okay)?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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