Comment 15 for bug 712521

Hi

> This wasn't what I meant. I meant to package just one bit of TL, the
> installer, into it, and make it pretend to provide all the TL
> dependencies.

And, as I wrote in the last email, how would the build structure that automatically install buil dependencies make sure that all the necessary addons for that paticular document would be installed?

That is what I mean, your suggestions sound nice, but only to people without any idea about Debian/Ubuntu packaging, nor TeX.

>> you seem to have no idea what TeX and friends is about!?
>
> No, unfortunately I do not.

Then why you are interested at all, if you don't use it anyway?

>
>> And something else, tlmgr is now existing since 2007, I wrote it.
>
> I meant that it was not included until Tex Live 2010... I could be wrong
> about that also? But thank you for the great program!

No, it was there right from the beginning after the rewrite of the infrastructure, otherwisr network installation would not have been possible.

> There is, unfortunately, a simple answer to this. Anyone who is saavy
> enough to help with the packaging would have already made a manual
> install (probably with a fake deb pretending to provide all the TL
> packages).

Well, the point is, do you want a solution for you, then be happy and stop b****ing around things you don't understand.

If you want to help the community, then
- read the packaging manual
- get acquainted with TeX Live
- follow the debian-tex-maint mailing list
- test the prelim packages and find problems etc

That would already be great. If in addition you could fix the probkems that would be much better.

But by now you are stealing time without giving back anything to the community that provided you with all this nice free stuff.

End of line.