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10-27-2014, 04:26 PM
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RE: LaTeX
(10-27-2014 02:02 AM)tavvva Wrote: icu is the only package out of 458 that suffers from this issue ... it's really a bad luck you chose this one I'm happy to confirm that this works and icu compiles, so after bumping the release version this could co to the binary repos. I simply chose it, because TeXLive depends on it. It is one step further to make Deli(cate) really useful. |
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10-27-2014, 04:37 PM
Post: #12
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RE: LaTeX
(10-27-2014 04:26 PM)MSW Wrote:(10-27-2014 02:02 AM)tavvva Wrote: icu is the only package out of 458 that suffers from this issue ... it's really a bad luck you chose this one The reason why I kept icu broken for so long lies in my inability to generate a lightweight version of the package in a reasonable time window. Maybe you noticed, that the icu stuff is pretty huge and therefore not very suitable for this distro. I know that icu can be stripped to a small subset of features, but that could go against your goal. Maybe we could introduce two concurrent versions of icu and the full featured could be put in a separate repository with heavy and bloated stuff. This kind of decisions is the most difficult on this work. |
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11-12-2014, 01:19 AM
Post: #13
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RE: LaTeX
(10-27-2014 04:37 PM)tavvva Wrote: The reason why I kept icu broken for so long lies in my inability to generate a lightweight version of the package in a reasonable time window. Maybe you noticed, that the icu stuff is pretty huge and therefore not very suitable for this distro. I know that icu can be stripped to a small subset of features, but that could go against your goal. Maybe we could introduce two concurrent versions of icu and the full featured could be put in a separate repository with heavy and bloated stuff. This kind of decisions is the most difficult on this work. Generating a lightweight version of icu might be a project on its own - and for compatibility reasons should be its own package I'd say. Regarding the decisions I'd go with the bloated stuff. Most of the target machines should have at least 1-2 Gig of harddrives and 40-64 Megs of RAM. Having a functional distro will attract people to use it and then in turn these people will contribute, because they have needs and want to stay with this distro. For me, I arrived here by updating from Deli (because after starting from Linux I knew that this would support PCMCIA-Networking without hassle and so on) Another big step would be moving from uCLibc to Musl, which seems actively maintained whereas uClibc hasn't seen updates for mote than 2 years. There seem to be a few distros favouring Musl [1]. But then again Starch Linux seems also dead. Eeerie [2] is far less usable than Deli while Sabotage [3] is LFS-based and not as accessible as an Arch-based distro (from a user perspective). However, Delicate has its niche and should get all the love it needs. [1] http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Projects_using_musl [2] https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/about/ [3] https://github.com/sabotage-linux |
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