[tex-live] collection merging
Zdenek Wagner
zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed May 3 00:35:57 CEST 2017
I do not know how many users actually select individua languages instead of
just installing averything but I am afraid that such users might be
confused if they do not see lang-indic and lang-african. I have no problem
with merging other packages.
Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
2017-05-03 0:25 GMT+02:00 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
> 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> 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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