On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 18:38 -0400, 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.
I had originally intended to do exactly as you propose, I just never got around to it before I handed TeX Live over to you. > 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. Of course, I'm sure you already understand that these can be completely separate source packages and do not need to be subpackages of the collections. > Before going ahead with this, I'd like to know if people think it's a > good idea. +1. Yaakov
