----- Op 27 jan 2021 om 15:55 schreef Volker A. Brandt [email protected]:
>> Packaging TeXLive needs some scripting to split tex packages by groups, >> otherwise you get a >= 1.5GB blob to install at once. 1.5GB sound way too big but it is indeed also the size that is reported in http://tug.org/texlive/distro.html for Slackware and Debian. Slackware t series texlive 2020 is only 76 MB. >> I think the Debian Sciences team had developed such scripts to maintain their >> packages. Presumably the Slackware small size is also the result of a lot packaging work. > True! I do have my own script for Solaris, that does exactly the same > thing. This is the result: > > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/[email protected],5.11:20150514T171548Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T222435Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T170151Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T170242Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150528T071726Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T170337Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T170427Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T210914Z > pkg://bb-c/bbc/application/texlive/[email protected],5.11:20150514T213612Z Disadvantage is that this a large set of packages. To keep it simple maybe OI could only provide just 1 simple, small texlive package, of about 75 MB like Slackware does. Also question is whether FMRI would be application/texlive or whether to put TeX in its own folder like tex/texlive. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
