How to build one TeXLive subpackage for EPEL-7?

Wed Apr 8 12:14:09 UTC 2015

On 04/08/2015 03:06 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "MC" == Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> writes:
>
> MC> Now, the question is how to build just one subpackage (or any
> MC> required other subpackages) from the monstrosity which the current
> MC> texlive? Anybody any suggestions?
>
> Just package it separately.  They should all have proper upstream
> tarballs, and there's no reason not to just make individual packages if
> that's what you need.  And, hey, while you're at it, stick them in
> rawhide and make the texlive package not generate them at all.  Anything
> that gets split out of texlive into proper packages is a win.

+1 That's similar to the way we had split perl into pieces years ago.

Ralf