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Re: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-texmf-minimal: Prune in snippet.
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-texmf-minimal: Prune in snippet. |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:41:55 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 25.1.1 |
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-texmf-minimal)[arguments]: Move contents
>> of "prune" build phase...
>> [source]: ...to a snippet here.
>
> It looks nicer this way, but a possible downside is the extra derivation
> and recompression of the patched source.
>
> No strong opinion here though.
My motivation was probably misguided. My hope was that building
“texlive-texmf-minimal” would no longer require the very large download
of the full texlive-texmf sources but only the much smaller pruned
sources. If this is the case I think it would be advantageous for
users. However, if building from source would cause them to download
the big tarball first, then patch and repack, and then build the package
— that would obviously not be great.
Do we provide substitutes for snippet-patched sources?
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Ricardo
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