On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:34:58PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Personally I preferred the "thousand package review"
scenario, but that
never happened. Having a small number of subpackages, however, was
never really something we on the packaging committee, at least, would
have allowed. But after that, we had no real input on how the actual
package was structured. It certainly could have been done in a better
manner than a 16MB, machine generated spec. Intervention there would
have to have been made by the package reviewer, and that didn't happen.
Basically, this is an end-run around the requirement of doing
individual package reviews for a zillion completely separate packages,
right?
Since this approach really has disproportionately large negative impact
on the rest of the distro, it seems like we should find a better way.
(Maybe even a separate texlive repo and git branches, still hosted by
Fedora and built in koji, but allowing machine-generated CTAN packages?
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader