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[PATCH] gnu: texlive-bin: Use absolute path to ghostscript executable "gs".

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Message #17 received at 31850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#31850] [PATCH] gnu: texlive-bin: Use absolute path to
 ghostscript executable "gs".
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?

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