TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you

[Bill Nottingham]

Jindrich Novy (jnovy at redhat.com) said: 
> > 
> > Coming at it from an outside-TeX standpoint: why does *each* package
> > need separate -doc and -source packages? What's the use case of those?
> 
> *-source:
> The runtime part of noarch TeX Live could be built from the stuff within
> -source packages thus one source package per one runtime TL package.
> Some TeX freaks want to look into/modify the source. Actually we may have
> a license obligation to ship sources to the packages (not sure about
> that, need to catch up with spot about that)

I'm having a hard time coming up with a response other than "that's why
we ship source RPMs; these don't need to be packaged." Am I missing
something?

> *-doc:
> They are HUGE. They are actually 2/3 of all the disc space needed to
> install a complete TeX Live. So better to have them separated when one
> doesn't need them.

Are they useful in and of themselves for each package?

Bill