Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >>> So TeX Live packages would use ‘texlive-fetch’ instead of ‘svn-fetch’ or >>> similar, right? >>> >>> If that’s the case, then merely computing the derivation of one of these >>> would require fetching the tldb database, which would be problematic. >>> Is this correct? >> >> I think there has been a misunderstanding here. Pierre seems to be >> using the name “texlive-fetch” for two different things. > > No, the "texlive-fetch" I meant was Ricardo's idea. We are talking > about the same thing. > >> The extraction of information from the plain text database (which is >> included with “texlive-bin”) is done “offline” when using the importer, >> i.e. when generating package definitions. > > Exactly, I think this is the part that Ludovic misunderstood.
OK, got it, thanks for explaining. Ludo’.
