GNU bug report logs - #27217
texlive is too big

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 19:05:02 UTC

Severity: important

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #67 received at 27217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 27217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:50:49 +0100
Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:

>> I don’t think that’s correct.  The .ins/.dtx files contain instructions
>> for generating files, including the .sty files, which are extracted from
>> the .dtx files.
>
> What I meant is that the .sty is always already generated in the SVN repo.

Yes, the SVN repo does include generated files.  That’s not great, but
we can choose to ignore those files (as we do in other projects).

-- 
Ricardo





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