[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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