On Monday 2019-03-18 07:13, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am 17.03.19 um 12:23 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
texlive OTOH feels more like a programming language where components should be installed on a strictly is-needed basis only. No doubt some genius has put a dynamic "is-available(extra-module)" check in some tex file, necessiting Recommends :-(
What would help though (from a user's perspective) if the essential pieces would come from < 5 packages. Like the glibc-devel package already comes with pthread.h - even if not needed by everyone.
glibc is at a totally different level. * glibc is just 7 MB, glibc-devel is just 3 MB. Not 600. * glibc is used by practically everything and everyone - good luck doing without it. texlive isn't. Now, it begs the question what part of texlive is actually "essential", is it TeX (installs 114), TeTeX (-installs just 12), LaTeX (-installs 111 pkgs for me)? Does it include BibTeX and metafont, or are they considered separate? Questions over questions. I am sure there is a die-hard person that will happily answer that. And the answer might just "do it like CTAN", which is what I believe openSUSE is currently doing. It's what openSUSE is doing for Perl/CPAN for example, and that seemed to have worked well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org