hmm, on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:32:10AM +0000, Stuart Henderson said that > perhaps those parts of texlive could be subpackaged or split off... > > it's good to try and find ways around conflicts, if anything else > starts to depend on them, they make things difficult for people using > the system, and also for bulk builds.
this is what netbsd does actually. although at first glance i don't understand how they do it.. their makefiles are just so... short :] anyway, i am fine with a "monolithic" texlive package, i am sure it was difficult to put it together as it is (good job Edd). i am quite sure my package won't be depended on, i am trying to put together a minimal install for ConTeXt, a tex macro package. this needs just some engines, and some fonts. as i don't use anything else, but context, texlive is a huge overkill for me, especially on my eeepc. this project was started by the context guys, and it would be nice to be able to use the power of the ports framework so i wouldnt have to rely on their complicated build scripts. this is just so much more comfortable and elegant. > you can set DISTFILES. grepping over the tree should find you > a couple, it's not used very widely though. yes, actually fedora is one of those. i've been playing with it not that long ago and already forgot! there's just too much.. -f -- recursive, adj.; see recursive
