[tex-live] Re: Debian-TeXlive Proposal II

[Frank Küster]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Dear Frank!
>
> On Mit, 26 Jan 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> You're right. Split it. But still I doubt that more than 100 packages
>> make sense. Can I look at the list of binary tpm's somewhere?
>
> Here is the list:

Thank you. I'm going to try to group it while reading:

- not needed, exists in Debian:

> bin-bzip2.tpm
> bin-chktex.tpm
> bin-dialog.tpm
> bin-ghostscript.tpm
> bin-gzip.tpm
> bin-jadetex.tpm
> bin-jpeg2ps.tpm 
  (non-free)
> bin-kpathsea.tpm
> bin-lacheck.tpm
> bin-lcdftypetools.tpm
> bin-tex4htk.tpm 
  (without the k)
> bin-texinfo.tpm
> bin-xmltex.tpm
> bin-xpdf.tpm

- might be in Debian, what's this exactly?

> bin-perl.tpm
> bin-pstools.tpm
> bin-psutils.tpm
> bin-pngtools.tpm
> bin-t1utils.tpm

- what's that?

> bin-pdftools.tpm
> bin-tetex.tpm

- why is that in -bin?

> bin-texsis.tpm

- not useful

> bin-windvi.tpm

- dvi stuff, could be grouped if you want

> bin-dtl.tpm
> bin-dvi2tty.tpm
> bin-dvicopy.tpm
> bin-dvidvi.tpm
> bin-dviljk.tpm
> bin-dvipng.tpm
> bin-dvipsk.tpm
> bin-seetexk.tpm

- devel stuff

> bin-ctie.tpm
> bin-cweb.tpm
> bin-texware.tpm
> bin-web.tpm
> bin-tie.tpm

- formats. If you have a setup similar to teTeX's, there's no need to
  split the bin package: The formats are generated by fmtutil (and the
  links by texlinks) only when the respective texmf package with the ini
  file is installed:

> bin-amstex.tpm
> bin-cslatex.tpm
> bin-csplain.tpm
> bin-cyrillic.tpm
> bin-eplain.tpm
> bin-mex.tpm
> bin-mltex.tpm
> bin-musixflx.tpm (?)
> bin-platex.tpm

  and perhaps also (or are the scripts contained?)

> bin-context.tpm

- other

> bin-afm2pl.tpm
> bin-aleph.tpm
> bin-bibtex.tpm
> bin-bibtex8.tpm
> bin-cjkutils.tpm
> bin-detex.tpm
> bin-devnag.tpm
> bin-dvipdfm.tpm
> bin-dvipdfmx.tpm
> bin-etex.tpm
> bin-fontware.tpm
> bin-getafm.tpm
> bin-gsftopk.tpm
> bin-latex.tpm
> bin-makeindex.tpm
> bin-metafont.tpm
> bin-metapost.tpm
> bin-mfware.tpm
> bin-omega.tpm
> bin-omegaware.tpm
> bin-patgen.tpm
> bin-pdftex.tpm
> bin-physe.tpm
> bin-phyzzx.tpm
> bin-ppower4.tpm
> bin-ps2pkm.tpm
> bin-tex.tpm
> bin-texconfig.tpm
> bin-texdoc.tpm
> bin-thumbpdf.tpm
> bin-ttf2pt1.tpm
> bin-ttfutils.tpm
> bin-vlna.tpm
> bin-xdvi.tpm

Personally, I would also consider to group some of the font stuff. But
it's your splitting philosophy that should be applied.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer