[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Frank!

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > texlive-languages-source	37M
> > texlive-base-source		78M
> > texlive-extra-source		172M
> 
> Whether this is a good idea depends on a decision that, IIRC, we have
> not yet talked about:  Will you only provide packages of the released
> version, or also of (usable) development versions?  In the latter case,

Irrelevant.

> I think it would be a good idea to keep documentation sources and TeX
> input file sources together.  Otherwise you'd have to rebuilt all
> packages from texlive-documentation-source and texlive-languages-source
> just because one language package was updated on CTAN and mirrored in
> TeXLive. 

No, because a tpm is treated as unit, thus the documentation and
source/input files are always in sync.

the documentation-foobar packages provide documentation in the
respective language if available.

> And generally I wonder:  Don't you generate most of the documentation
> from dtx files, and many input files from the same dtx files?  Then why

No, I use what is in the depot of perforce texlive.

Best wishes

Norbert

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