[tex-live] Dependencies resolved -> List-of-Files-to-install (was: Re: tlpdb-file sorted)

Oliver Bandel oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Mon Jul 9 13:06:15 CEST 2007


Zitat von Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:

> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to provide such a file
> > for the installation? Then the installation-scripts
> > only needs to slurp in the names...
>
> No. Because the installer can use the TLPDB/TLPOBJ modules to generated
> this list.

Yes.

>
> No duplication of information.

Yes, I see this.

But it saves execution time during installation.
But maybe the main-problem is the reading from the DVD.

I don't know what the bottleneck is, there were many guesses
here on the list, but no true profiling.

Ciao,
   Oliver


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