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Re: Prefer luatex for documentation
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Luca Fascione |
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Re: Prefer luatex for documentation |
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Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:50:45 +0100 |
I'd have thought au jour d'ui 227MB qualifies as small, no? It's averaging
at 500kB/package which is bigger than I thought (I'd have thought more like
50k tops, tbh) but it seems like it'd be a relatively manageable size for a
one-off setup...
A compiler or browser release or a couple weeks worth of system updates are
probably a comparable size?
I'm also wondering whether your point that you get all locales together
would imply that the locale test can simply check for a couple ones that
are not commonly together, amd if that fails ask to install a complete
package?
After all if a developer can't spare a couple hundred megs is not like
they'll be able to build much on their machine, nor use it for much longer
that day anyways...
L
On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, 15:14 Werner LEMBERG, <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Question: I would have thought locales would be a) largely present,
> > b) small and easy to install as dependencies, like many other
> > dependencies we have (and substantially less prone to change than
> > any software dependency)
> >
> > Where does the concern with locales not being available on a system
> > come from?
>
> It's often not installed, and it lacks standardization. And no,
> locales are not small and easy but quite heavy instead – the
> `/usr/lib/locale` directory on my openSUSE GNU/Linux box provides 494
> locales and has a whopping size of 227MByte, mainly for collation and
> character type information. Normally, you won't get a single locale
> as a separate package, which forces you to install all of them.
>
>
> Werner
>
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, (continued)
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/28
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/28
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/28
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/28
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/28
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation,Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Luca Fascione, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation,
Luca Fascione <=
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Luca Fascione, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Wol, 2022/11/29
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/30
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/30
- Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/28
Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Hans Åberg, 2022/11/23
Re: Prefer luatex for documentation, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/11/21