[tlbuild] pruning platforms

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 23:04:16 +0000
Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> We need to save space on the DVD -- turns out that
> TL+protext+CTAN+MacTeX is bigger than a dual-layer DVD can hold.  We
> exclude a little more from CTAN every year :).
> 
> To ameliorate this a bit on the TL side, I thought that a few
> less-used platforms could be removed from the DVD (only).  They would
> still be in the repository and could still be installed normally over
> the net (i.e., no need for -custom-bin), so I'm hoping no one will
> mind.
> 
> Looking at the list, I propose to prune the following from the DVD:
>   mips-irix alpha-linux powerpc-linux i386-kfreebsd amd64-kfreebsd
> 
> Any objections (or additions :)?
> 
> Thanks,
> k

kfreebsd (both i386 and amd64) is very marginal. And thanks to Norbert's
packaging for Debian, TexLive is available (for kfreebsd as well)
through the usual (apt) channels, so there should not be any problems
in excluding these binaries from the DVD.

Alan

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