Re: Saving space...

Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]> 15 Apr 2003 09:00:51 +0200

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On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 08:57, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>  Maybe there
> needs to be some sort of effort by someone to have a way of splitting
> up teTeX meaningfully into tetex-core, tetex-normal and tetex-extra or
> something like that.  I mean, eventually the whole of the CTAN macros
> directory could end up in teTeX....

one way of achieving this would be to merge teTeX and TeX Live.
TL is currently a superset of teTeX, but with a more sophisticated
package management infrastructure. It defines 912 packages,
in 58 collections. Those 50-60 packages are the sort of granularity
needed by teTeX, IMHO.
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Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]>
OUCS