On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:38:36PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:32:10AM +0000, Stuart Henderson said that
> > perhaps those parts of texlive could be subpackaged or split off...
> >
> > it's good to try and find ways around conflicts, if anything else
> > starts to depend on them, they make things difficult for people using
> > the system, and also for bulk builds.
>
> this is what netbsd does actually. although at first glance
> i don't understand how they do it.. their makefiles are
> just so... short :]
>
> anyway, i am fine with a "monolithic" texlive package, i am
> sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good
> job Edd).
>
> i am quite sure my package won't be depended on, i am trying
> to put together a minimal install for ConTeXt, a tex macro
> package. this needs just some engines, and some fonts.
> as i don't use anything else, but context, texlive is a huge
> overkill for me, especially on my eeepc.
Did you look at texlive_base? It should be a rather solid base for your
work.
In fact, it might suffice to install texlive_base, untar the ConTeXt
files in /usr/local/share/texmf-local, and (re-)build the ls-R files.
(Of course, this is not the way to go with a port - texmf-local should
probably be reserved for the user - but could work well if you just want
to use ConTeXt on a machine with restricted disk space.)
Joachim
