From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 04:41:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5960416A418 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu (smtpclu-7.eunet.yu [194.247.192.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60AF13C459 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:41:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from nyx.localhost (adsl-230-230.eunet.yu [213.198.230.230]) by smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6P3ZKnc025836; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:35:21 +0200 Message-Id: <200707250335.l6P3ZKnc025836@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:36:39 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic To: Predrag Punosevac In-Reply-To: <46A6CE7D.5050509@math.arizona.edu> References: <46A6CE7D.5050509@math.arizona.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-EUNET-AVAS-Milter-Version: 2.0.0 X-AVAS-Virus-Status: clean X-AVAS-Spamd-Symbols: BAYES_40,TW_XM,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-AVAS-Spam-Score: -0.1 Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: powerdot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:41:07 -0000 On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:15:57 -0700 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Nikola Lecic wrote: > > > > > > Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean > > by "light version"? > > > > =20 > One of original arguments for not porting TeXLive was that the > program is simply to big > (over 1Gb). Having downloaded TeXLive (binaries only) on several=20 > occasions for my friends over DSL I can confess that that is really > the case (at least 3 hours for binaries over 1.5Mps DSL connection) . Binaries are 38M: % du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ 38M /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ (~270 binaries). texmf-dist/: common, platform-independent resources: 972M texmf-doc/: 136M > I purpose that the program be ported in the style of Gnome. Light > strip down version which would > be the minimal fully functional configuration, > "full" (English language) version with all bells, and then another > port with the support for different languages, another port Music > part of the TeXLive etc. Well, yes, of course, this is the way it was done where TeXLive was ported (OpenBSD, Debian...): as modularised as possible. > The idea of dividing the port is just > initial and should be more carefully considered by the people who > know more about various aspects of TeX that I do not use. What makes you think they are not aware of this? Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87