[tlbuild] pruning platforms

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 17 Mai 2013, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> loud. Let's say that a user of a rare platform gets the DVD with all
..
> - download the necessary binaries from CTAN mirror

Huahhhh, sounds like trouble. Doable but very shaky, wouldn't be happy
about that.

> Is implementing this doable? And if not (it's probably a bit late for
> radical changes?), it could be helpful to print a message during

Definitely too invasive.

>     platform and where he can find additional information about how to
>     perform the installation if he wants to save bandwidth.
> 
> Not looking forward to writing those instructions.

Maybe simply tell that he should use the network installer?

Norbert

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