Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > >> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-texmf-minimal)[arguments]: Move contents >> of "prune" build phase... >> [source]: ...to a snippet here. > > It looks nicer this way, but a possible downside is the extra derivation > and recompression of the patched source. > > No strong opinion here though.
My motivation was probably misguided. My hope was that building “texlive-texmf-minimal” would no longer require the very large download of the full texlive-texmf sources but only the much smaller pruned sources. If this is the case I think it would be advantageous for users. However, if building from source would cause them to download the big tarball first, then patch and repack, and then build the package — that would obviously not be great. Do we provide substitutes for snippet-patched sources? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net
