Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > the attached patch does what its commit message says. It is the fruit of many > trials and discussions with Ludovic. The tricky thing was to link to the > kpsewhich binary in texlive-bin, but to make it take its configuration file > texmf.cnf from texlive-data. I ended up wrapping all binaries and providing > them with the suitable value of TEXMFCNF.
I don’t want to spoil the party ;-), but could it be that there are programs outside of TeX Live that use libkpathsea & co.? > The real goal of the patch is to make it easy to create a second package > texlive-small in a second step. This package shall inherit from texlive, > but have as input texlive-texmf-small, which is created as texlive-texmf, > but after deleting a big chunk of data; I would say, all the documentation > and most of the fonts. Such a smaller package could be a native input for > packages creating their documentation from a latex source, for instance. That would be nice. Thanks for your hard work on this! Ludo’.
