The reason of splitting: texlive is arch-dependent, texlive-texmf is arch-independent. The versions are different.
> - texlive-texmf.spec: texlive-latex-bibtex-data > - texlive.spec: texlive-latex-bibtex - it requires the above, but you have > to build texlive.spec first You can build texlive.spec with older texlive-latex-bibtex-data. This is the reason why need bootstrap. So you'll build texlive2012 with texlive-texmf2008, after you'll build texlive-texmf2012 with texlive2012, and rebuild texlive2012 with texlive-texmf2012. > I would suggest to merge those two specs again. Bit more painful > to build, but much simpler to maintain. I think the maintain isn't harder with two little(?) specs. I think it would be nice to create a policy: which type of files belongs to texlive and which belongs to texlive-texmf and apply this policy. Some time ago, when I've split texlive.spec to texlive.spec and texlive-texmf.spec many things was adhoc-style :) So first need a big-big cleaning and I think after this the maintain will be simple. With one big spec: the build will be hard, see above, as you wrote: you'll build the texlive.spec's texlive-bin and after you'll install these packages and build texlive.spec's texlive-texmf? Zsolt _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en