TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 06/02/2009 07:27 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> sorry for long mail. I thought it's a good idea to catch up with you
> guys before I update to the new TeX Live in rawhide and discuss possible
> problems. To make really long story short, the new TeX Live comes with
> a huge set of subpackages (about 4000) so what I want to ask you if it
> will just slow down yum and general updating terribly or is it
> generally acceptable? (considering the metadata size growth?)

Jindrich,

We need to do a license audit here, top to bottom. I know there will be
stuff we will need to remove for legal reasons.

~spot