On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Tomasz Kłoczko
<kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 March 2018 at 03:14, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>> BTW In situations like this is possible to observe how really bad idea
>>> was building ALL Fedora +5.6k texlive* packages from single sec file.
>>
>> Except that is no longer the case. texlive-base only has ~120 or so
>> subpackages for each arch and also most of the packages that are deps
>> for other things. The larger 'texlive' package is now a noarch package
>> that doesn't need to be rebuilt very often.
>
> Looking on texlive-base.spec I see ~180 packages but it is really
> tiny/minor detail.
>
> $ grep ^%files texlive-base.spec -c; grep ^%package texlive-base.spec -c
> 182
> 181
>
> Good to know that (re)building all other ~5.5k texlive packages is
> perfectly OK now ..
> Rhetorical question: is it any and/or at least one good reason why
> those ~180 texlive-base packages using ~350 source tar balls must be
> (re)built always together?

Personally I think the better question is why popplar has to break
it's ABI so often? I mean it's not like the PDF spec is evolving that
quickly, why is it so terrible and unstable that is has to change so
much? I mean I'm sure I've seen java script implementations that have
less churn than it!
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