Bernhard Walle schrieb: > * Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-09 14:21]: >> Am Montag 09 Juli 2007 schrieb Bernhard Walle: >> >>> So why do we make a DVD at all? Just one CD for the installation and >>> the rest can be downloaded from FTP. At least it should be on the >>> DVD9. Or what's the point of buying the box if the user has do >>> download all via FTP? >> "the user" is pretty hard to grasp. And yes, if "the user" had to >> download "all" via FTP, it would be pointless to sell a DVD. But >> if roughly a third of users have to download tex when they need it, >> it sounds still like a good deal. > > So why do we have KOffice on the DVD? I don't think that KOffice is > used by 1/3 of the openSUSE users. I never met people that use KOffice > (except maybe here in the SUSE offices), but I met a lot that use TeX. > > And the fact that TeX Live needs a lot of DVD space is a reason *why* > I want to see it included in the DVD that is in the box. It's not a > problem to download a package of 10-20 MiB even with a weak internet > connection. But it *is* for a package of 500 MiB. Even for DSL 2000 > it's a bit annoying. Not a big problem, but annoying. > >
I think the openSUSE version of TeXlive could be splitted into small packages, like Debian does. They have: 28 packages concerning languages (texlive-lang) 13 packages extra (texlive-extra) 22 packages with documentation in different languages (texlive-doc) 10 binary packages (texlive-bin) 12 meta-packages for different subsets of all above Perhaps not all packages can make it onto the DVD and some more esoteric ones are only within the repository. So, it does not necessarily need the whole 500MB on the DVD. But I'd be very disappointed, if TeX/LaTeX would be available only via ftp. Best regards, Thomas Leineweber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
