On Sun, 16.12.2007 at 22:59:55 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > This is a progress report from the current teTeX maintainer who is > trying to update TeX in the ports tree to TeXLive. As I explained, > if we go with the finer-grained package model, over 1000 ports have > to be added at a time, so testing them should be done in a separate > tree at least. I hope I will be able to set up a public tree for > testing and collaborative work this month... > > Any comments are welcome. Thanks.
As I'm not doing any work, my vote doesn't count, but please: Creating 2-3 *big* TeXLive ports is certainly wrong, but creating 1000 tiny ports is equally wrong. Think about the repo bloat and churn introduced by a "single" software like a LaTeX system. It will slow down everything from cvs checkout, to index building and pkg_info(1). Can't you split the TeXLive Distribution up into say 12 ports? Something minimal that can be used by other ports to typeset documentation (how common is this, anyway?) and 3-4 big TeXLive ports for the typical TeX user. Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
