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Re: texlive failure


From: Andreas Enge
Subject: Re: texlive failure
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:34:30 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:56:17PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote:
> So, I guess grafting takes a very long time. For this package it is
> not substantially faster than building the package itself. :-(

The speciality of texlive is that it is relatively easy to build - some CPU time
for the binaries. Then the data is essentially only unpacked and some of the
binaries are run on them, but the latter takes only minutes. So I would always
recommend to (re-)build the package locally.

Andreas




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