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FS#78755 - [texlive-fontsextra] Excessive download size (512MB); should be broken up

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Brent Spillner (spillner) - Sunday, 11 June 2023, 00:33 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Monday, 12 June 2023, 14:48 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Caleb Maclennan (alerque)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: The texlive-fontsextra package is too large (~512MB downloads) for the pace of updates it's receiving (seven new versions pushed in the last two weeks, all for trivial changes). It should be replaced with a metapackage with dependencies on separate binary packages for each font family.


Additional info:
See release history at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/texlive-texmf/-/commits/main

Steps to reproduce:
1. sudo pacman -Syu
2. Wait about 35 minutes on a 250 kbps connection.
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Monday, 12 June 2023, 14:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Sunday, 11 June 2023, 00:55 GMT
But some maintenance is better than no maintenance, yes? The whole tex* thing has recently been restructured by the new maintainer which has required lots of tweaking. Things will settle down eventually. I pity your 250 kbps connection :(
Comment by Brent Spillner (spillner) - Sunday, 11 June 2023, 01:08 GMT
Maintenance is great, but the release pace is starting to feel a little excessive--- everything since -2 has been for fairly trivial fixes that might have been caught with a longer testing period. Anyway, I definitely appreciate the work keeping it up to date, but it's so much larger than almost any other package that I think the effort to make another refactor (into smaller distributable chunks) may be worthwhile. Happy to contribute.
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Monday, 12 June 2023, 14:48 GMT
> trivial fixes that might have been caught with a longer testing period

That would work under the assumption that a significant number of users do use the testing repos, which is not the case unfortunately.

The texlive packages are in the process of being refactored to follow upstream categories. The fontsextra package will still be quite large after the refactor. If you need more granularity, you should use the tug installer instead. We don't have the manpower to maintain a huge set of small packages.

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