On Jun 30 18:38, Ken Brown wrote: > TeX Live upstream has thousands of packages, grouped into > "collections". Cygwin's TeX Live distribution, as originally > packaged by Yaakov, has one texlive-collection-* package for each > upstream collection. I've just discovered that about 1800 of the > upstream packages, falling into about 40 collections, have > documentation that is currently not included in the Cygwin packages. > I don't know if this was on oversight on Yaakov's part or a > deliberate decision to omit most of the documentation. > > In any case, I think that the documentation is an integral part of > TeX Live and needs to be part of the Cygwin distribution. If I > simply add it to the texlive-collection-* packages, however, some of > them drastically increase in size. For example, the installation > tarball for texlive-collection-latex would increase from about 1MB > to about 40MB. And for texlive-collection-latexextra it would > increase from under 10MB to over 300MB. > > My inclination is to create new texlive-collection-*-doc packages, > at least for the most commonly used collections and/or for the > collections that have a lot of documentation. Ubuntu appears to do > something like this. > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=texlive shows the > following documentation packages: > > texlive-base-bin-doc > texlive-fonts-extra-doc > texlive-fonts-recommended-doc > texlive-humanities-doc > texlive-latex-base-doc > texlive-latex-extra-doc > texlive-latex-recommended-doc > texlive-metapost-doc > texlive-pictures-doc > texlive-pstricks-doc > texlive-publishers-doc > > Before going ahead with this, I'd like to know if people think it's > a good idea.
texlive is alredy a big beast as it is and there are quite a lot of people out there which got the loads of packages because they updated via setup without ever seeing the announcement. I like the idea to keep the docs separate, given their size. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
