Hey Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Tex Live packages often have a complicated source file layout. They > don’t usually come in a nice self-contained tarball. Instead they are a > mosaic of files that are sourced from different parts of the Tex Live > SVN tree. For many Tex Live packages the “source” field is > insufficient, so we add lots of additional origins as native inputs. > This makes for very ugly package definitions. (See > texlive-fonts-txfonts for an example.) > > What do you think about adding a new procedure that can fetch sources > from different locations? This might be done by extending SVN-FETCH or > by adding a special TEXLIVE-FETCH that fetches sources from different > directories in the source tree, returning them as *one* origin with one > simple hash. I don’t know much about the source file layout in TeX Live, but from what you describe, a ‘texlive-fetch’ procedure that gathers files sounds like the right approach. Thanks, Ludo’.
