Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:52 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: powerdot Message-ID: <46A6DA30.7020201@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <200707250335.l6P3ZKnc025836@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu> References: <46A6CE7D.5050509@math.arizona.edu> <200707250335.l6P3ZKnc025836@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu>
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Nikola Lecic wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:15:57 -0700 > Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> wrote: > > >> Nikola Lecic wrote: >> >>> Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean >>> by "light version"? >>> >>> >>> >> One of original arguments for not porting TeXLive was that the >> program is simply to big >> (over 1Gb). Having downloaded TeXLive (binaries only) on several >> occasions for my friends over DSL I can confess that that is really >> the case (at least 3 hours for binaries over 1.5Mps DSL connection) . >> > > Binaries are 38M: > > % du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ > 38M /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ > > (~270 binaries). > > texmf-dist/: common, platform-independent resources: 972M > texmf-doc/: 136M > > >> I purpose that the program be ported in the style of Gnome. Light >> strip down version which would >> be the minimal fully functional configuration, >> "full" (English language) version with all bells, and then another >> port with the support for different languages, another port Music >> part of the TeXLive etc. >> > > Well, yes, of course, this is the way it was done where TeXLive was > ported (OpenBSD, Debian...): as modularised as possible. > > >> The idea of dividing the port is just >> initial and should be more carefully considered by the people who >> know more about various aspects of TeX that I do not use. >> > > What makes you think they are not aware of this? > > Nikola Lečić > Well, I hope that they are aware but it seems that nobody is acting on these issues(or at least not fast enough).
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