[tex-live] collection merging
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Wed May 3 00:25:17 CEST 2017
I'm wondering about merging a few more of the small collections,
primarily just to make the lists shorter and simpler. See lists below;
the numbers to the left of the c-name are the sizes in megabytes,
numbers to the right are the number of packages in that
collection. "collection-" is abbreviated to "c-".
For languages, I wonder if we could get away with putting langafrican
and langindic (both of which are tiny) into langother.
For non-languages, what comes to mind is to merge plainextra,
genericrecommended, and genericextra (all tiny, and those distinctions
don't seem important nowadays...) into, say, c-genericplain.
Also, c-htmlxml is only a few packages:
classpack jadetex lwarp passivetex tex4ht xmltex xmltexconfig
jadetex, passivetex, and xmltex are essentially unused these days. They
could go to c-otherformats. I think c-omega could go there too. (Maybe
scheme-xml can be deleted too, while we're at it.)
As for classpack, tex4ht, and lwarp, they can fit somewhere else, e.g.,
latexrecommended/extra, genericplain, somewhere.
I feel doubtful that anyone (de)selects the above collections
individually.
Any comments? Is the whole idea of more collection merging worth
pursuing at all? --thanks, karl.
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414 c-langjapanese 43 1052 c-fontsextra 255
161 c-langchinese 22 598 c-latexextra 1148
145 c-langkorean 12 343 c-pstricks 99
142 c-langenglish 60 223 c-publishers 173
99 c-langgreek 25 211 c-context 53
54 c-langgerman 49 193 c-pictures 160
52 c-langother 28 190 c-fontsrecommended 34
47 c-langcyrillic 43 115 c-bibtexextra 128
41 c-langczechslovak 28 106 c-latex 40
41 c-langfrench 32 92 c-xetex 50
37 c-langarabic 15 91 c-latexrecommended 59
26 c-langcjk 14 84 c-mathscience 163
24 c-langeuropean 64 83 c-binextra 161
24 c-langpolish 27 80 c-basic 55
16 c-langportuguese 9 56 c-music 31
11 c-langindic 15 51 c-metapost 44
10 c-langspanish 14 40 c-htmlxml 21
10 c-langafrican 4 29 c-humanities 51
8 c-langitalian 16 23 c-genericextra 51
18 c-luatex 39
15 c-fontutils 31
15 c-games 32
15 c-formatsextra 21
11 c-omega 10
7 c-plainextra 24
7 c-genericrecommended 9
1 c-wintools 1
0 c-texworks 1
P.S. For the record, the above output is from the tlpkg/bin/tlpsizes
utility script in the repository, with a little editing after.
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