[tex-live] Proposal for collection reorganization

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Jun 5 10:01:29 CEST 2006


Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Karl, hi all!
>
> On Son, 04 Jun 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>   
>>     What do we need the collection-pdfetex for? It does *not* contain the
>>     pdfetex binary, but only pdf related stuff:
>>
>> A number of other collections depend on it: collection-context,
>> -htmlxml, -langczechslovak, -latex.  And scheme-full, scheme-gust,
>> -gutenberg, -medium, -xml.
>>
>> I don't know what to make of it all.  In particular it does seem
>> right for collection-context to depend on something that includes a
>> bunch of latex packages.
>>     
>
> Ok, I see the point. If someone only want context, he still needs this
> packages, but not the full latex bunch.
>
> So we leave it like it is, or?
>   
context does not depends on anything plain or latex; it only needs the 
things in the regular cont-tmf.zip and of course fonts and binaries
>   
Hans


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