Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds

[Ludovic Courtès]

Paul van der Walt <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2015-10-21 at 18:45, quoth Ludovic Courtès:
>> The TeX Live issue is orthogonal: We seriously need a ‘texlive-minimal’
>> variant, and the full-blown ‘texlive’ must not be depended on by any
>> other package.
>
> Even more orthogonal: can packages be marked as leaves (or roots,
> depending on your point of view) that may not be used as inputs?  If not
> that sounds like a potentially useful bit of package metadata.

We could do that, but I’m not sure it’s useful, apart from this very
particular case.  Do you have other uses in mind?

Ludo’.