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texlive is too big

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Message #118 received at 27217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, Ludovic Courtès
 <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>, 27217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:47:22 +0100

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> 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.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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