Subject: Re: [bug#31850] [PATCH] gnu: texlive-bin: Use absolute path to ghostscript executable "gs".

From: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:36:00 +0530

>> ‘texlive-bin’ has just 252 dependent it seems, many of which are
>> ‘texlive-’ packages, which are usually quickly built.  So I’d say it’s
>> OK for master, but I could be missing some other way in which
>> ‘texlive-bin’ is depended on.

But, we'd be forcing people to download the huge (~ 2.2 GB)
texlive-texmf source tarball. And, the texlive package which depends on
texlive-bin spends a good deal of time in the install phase. Is this
fine?