Re: git: 8374a33c804a - main - tex* : Update version 20150521=>20210325

It’s more like balance in nature. Either you make it heavy on resources and save human times to enjoy the life a little bit more. Or you can host the split distfiles somewhere; 80 different ports require couple of files from the pkg; so if you want to split it in that way for each individual port; you can do that. But at the end texlive is nothing without the fonts and styles so whoever is using texlive will require texlive-texmf too. And as there is a fundamental shift in bringing FreeBSD for Desktop users; I believe keeping it is justified as it is; enjoying more nature time. :)

Considering other Linux distros we are in a better shape with the package. Debian and Fedora most probably has one single 3.5 GB package artifact.

Kind Regards,
Moin (bofh)

> On 20 Feb 2022, at 18:37, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 10:29:43PM +0100, Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote:
>>> On 19 Feb 2022, at 22:25, Antoine Brodin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 9:21 PM Antoine Brodin wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 2:26 AM Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote:
>>>>> commit 8374a33c804a728bf435da801571ae9905244f50
>>>>> 
>>>>>   tex* : Update version 20150521=>20210325
>>>> 
>>>> texlive-texmf is unfetchable.  Please fix as a lot of ports depend
>>>> on it. unfetchable on 32bits systems, please find a solution.
>>> 
>> I am not sure whether if the file size has any effect on 32-bit system
>> but the current file size is around 3313MB. Does that ring any bell?
> 
> ~3G distfile of a non-leaf port is an insult to any sane human.  Can we
> fix this root problem?
> 
> ./danfe