On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 17:27 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Frank K??ster wrote: > >> > >> * advanced scheme > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Additionally, tetex-bin-nox is split into tetex-bin-mini and > >> tetex-bin-extra (or similar), where tetex-bin-mini contains only > >> pdfetex, mf-nowin and dvips plus the needed scripts/binaries smaller > >> than 100K. This would require more work, because finding out which > >> small programs are needed isn't trivial. > > > > I agree with this in principle, but not using a size criterion. > > Rather, those binaries which depend on something in tetex-extra (eg > > aleph, omega, whatever we put there) should move to tetex-bin-extra > > and those which don't can stay in tetex-bin. > > That was also my intention. I used the size just as an additional > reason to split like this; but the main point is that in order to > produce DVI or PDF from LaTeX sources, you only need pdfetex, mf-nowin > and dvips (plus all the helper scripts).
The difficulty is how to identify the programs that are not all that necessary. One could start with a 'opt-out' list, though: tetex-bin-x11: xdvi mf(w) tetex-bin-extra: omega, aleph, omfonts, odvicopy, odvitype, otangle, otp2ocp, outocp (Omega) mpost, mpto, makempx (MetaPost) texexec (ConTeXt) pltotf, tftopl, vftovp, vptovf (TFM/VF conversion) ... cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
