Hilmar Preusse <hill...@web.de> wrote: > Package: texlive-full > Version: 2009-7 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > as discussed in #564241: some maintainers don't like to specify all single > packages they need for building the docs in the BDs. The reason is that the > packages may change (some LaTeX classes move from one to the other, etc). > Hence they specify texlive-full as BD. The is a waste of resources as that > package pull ins megabytes of TeX documentation, which is not needed for > building. > Please create a package texlive-bd, which is a full TL installation minus > docs.
Hm, shouldn't we rather restrict this to "full latex and fonts"? I admit that this is today most of texlive; but XeTeX-, LuaTeX- and ConTeXt-related stuff is going to grow, and there's little chance that they will be used much by build processes. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org