On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:21:01PM +0100, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:10:12PM +0100, Romain Tartière wrote:
> >  3. One port per Package, grouping related packages (e.g. foo,
> >     foo.source and foo.doc) (/[0-9]{4}/ ports) + meta-port for
> >     Collections (84 meta-ports) + meta-port for Scheme (10 meta-ports)
> >    + high granularity;
> >    + no conflict;
> >    - many ports.
> As a current teTeX and Xorg user, I like your choice #3.
> As a little note, you can consider sub-splitting Package port into 'meat' part
> (always installed), documentation, examples, etc. (controlled by
> NOPORTDOCS, NOPORTEXAMPLES, etc. variables set by the end user).
> So, it is still one FreeBSD port, but user can choose whether to install
> doc and so on, or not.
Yup! This is already planned this way in bsd.texlive.mk [1].

> Just FYI, debian seems to have chosen something between #1 and #2:
> ~> grep ^texlive allpackages | wc
>       93     775    7736
I will have a look at it!

Thanks!
Romain

References:
  1. 
http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/source/browse/trunk/print/texlive/bsd.texlive.mk

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