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bug#27217: texlive is too big
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Subject: |
bug#27217: texlive is too big |
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Date: |
Mon, 28 May 2018 13:58:21 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 25.3.1 |
Peter Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
> What's the current status on this?
No progress yet. I’ve been meaning to work on this, but it’s pretty
tedious and demands concentration, which is a quality I haven’t been
able to maintain.
For most *packages* needing a subset of TeX live we can use
“texlive-union” as an input instead. For user profiles, “texlive-union”
is not the right tool.
> What's the intended TeXlive installation process then?
Currently, the recommended way to get TeX live is to install the
huge “texlive” package. “texlive-union” was only meant to be used as an
input in packages that require a subset of TeX live. It cannot yet be
used in a profile.
> Let me know if I there is anything I can help with.
We need a profile hook that builds the configuration file and sets
environment variables whenever a texlive-* package is contained in a
profile. The behaviour would be similar to “texlive-union”.
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Ricardo