[tex-live] CD /DVD images (some notes)
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
staw at gust.org.pl
Wed Jun 18 18:51:59 CEST 2003
On 18 Jun 2003, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:37, Karl Berry wrote:
> > It does seem perverse, though, to make a 3 disk set, to have to put
> > the source on all of them.
> >
> > It does, doesn't it? But it seems to me that the demo cd is a "product"
> > in its own right, as far as distribution goes. I mean, someone could
> > decide to only copy/redistribute that cd.
>
> in which case *all* the package owners would complain, as I have omitted
> the texmf/source tree.
No! We are talking about only /source/source.tar.bz2 not /texmf/source/
source.tar.bz2 if not needed on demo|lite|small CD. If needed
to recompile binaries, everybody can take it from DVD or inst-CD
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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl
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