Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-14 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ralf Stubner wrote: >> the actual texpower code now resides in tl-latex-extra. However, I >> think tl-fonts-recommend is still sufficient for texpower. > > tlpslifonts is in extra. I stand corrected. cheerio ralf

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Ralf Stubner wrote: > the actual texpower code now resides in tl-latex-extra. However, I > think tl-fonts-recommend is still sufficient for texpower. tlpslifonts is in extra. Best wishes Norbert Norbert

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:47 PM, David Starner wrote: > texlive-fonts-extra-doc is 68 MB, which is nothing to sneeze at, but > the ultimate problem here is that texpower depends (not recommends) on > texlive-fonts-extra, which is almost 400 MB. That does look unnecessary, indeed. In wheezy, texpo

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread David Starner
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > You probably didn't set 'Install-Recommends "false"'; in your > apt.conf. Hence apt tries to install also the recommended packages > and we have set the doc packages to recommended. Yes, these doc > packages are quite large, a minimal TL inst

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread Hilmar Preuße
On 12.05.12 David Starner (prosfil...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, > > Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the only > > solution you get a in-place upgrade. (texpower is empty, just > > depending on texlive-latex-extra which c

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 12 Mai 2012, David Starner wrote: > this really suddenly need texlive-fonts-extra? And does a 400MB > package made up of 150 CTAN packages really need to exist? You dind'nt understand the point... 36K texlive_2011.20120511-1_all.deb 14M texlive-base_2011.20120511-1_all.deb 25M t

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > BTW, why do you complain? To use texpower you *anyway* need TeX? > So it will be installed *anyway*. And if you don't want, don't > install the documentation, and it will be much leaner. Why do I complain? Because one day I was upgrading

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 11 Mai 2012, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [ NB: I am only the former texpower maintainer, no idea why the BTS sent that > to me > anyways, as it (at least now) now knows the new one ] I have seen this problem recently a few times, it is a pain, and a bug in the BTS I think Best wishes No

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 12 Mai 2012, David Starner wrote: > stand-alone component under 1 MB that can't be installed without > adding 450 MB of other stuff, perhaps it's time for more fine-grained > dependencies. Hahahaha - we split TeX LIve already in 50 or more packages ... I proposed a complete splitting in th

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:06:43AM -0700, David Starner wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the > > only solution you get a in-place upgrade. (texpower is empty, just depending > > on texlive-latex-extra which c

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the > only solution you get a in-place upgrade. (texpower is empty, just depending > on texlive-latex-extra which contains texpower) That isn't the only solution. There's not one monoli

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
[ NB: I am only the former texpower maintainer, no idea why the BTS sent that to me anyways, as it (at least now) now knows the new one ] Hi, On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:16:05AM -0700, David Starner wrote: > texpower, in testing, has an installed size of 387 KB. If you look at ... when it still

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-11 Thread David Starner
Package: texpower Version: 2011.20120509-1 texpower, in testing, has an installed size of 387 KB. If you look at command lines below, to upgrade to the new texpower is going to take over 450 MB. I was considering making this wishlist, but this 1000x fold increase in effective size takes a program