2011/7/6 Christiaan Welvaart <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Kira wrote: > >> 在 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:09:30 +0800, Anne nicolas <[email protected]>寫道: >> >>> Hi there >>> >>> Here is an interesting topic :).Texlive is one of the biggest package >>> we have for now. Of course split is needed but we postponed it after >>> Mageia 1 to have a look on it. Now here we go! >>> >>> It needs first to have a look on the way we want to split it, Fedora >>> one (zillions of sub-packages) or our own one based on the wau >>> different components are used. >>> >>> Comments, proposals welcome >>> >> >> First: Which version? Texlive 2007 or later ones build on luaTex? >> >> I have heard that after 2008, building texlive is almost impossible.... > > Texlive 2010 is already available in mageia, so I believe this is about > improving the existing package(s). That consists mostly of splitting up > texlive-texmf(?), but maybe also adding a dependency on a minimal set of > fonts to texlive. Currently the texmf subpackage can be removed while most > of the programs in the texlive package are probably useless without fonts.
Indeed. Package is for now much too monolitic which does not help to reduce size of some installs. > > > Christiaan > -- Anne http://www.mageia.org
