On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:57, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus@gmx.net> wrote:
The reason for doing so is simple: the TeXLive license *requires* us to provide the sources :)
BTW if you have problems with my texlive-scripts, feel free to ask ;)
Aren't the docs in the same source tarballs? Couldn't you just pull the existing texlive tarballs and use those?
Don't we have a special script that downloads sources of packages? Why the sources of texlive are in /other/texlive/ then?
You are confusing sources and sourceballs.
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other is intendend for source tarballs for projects that are no longer hosted upstream, SCM snapshots, homemade projects, etc.
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/sources is intendend for sourceballs of packages where the license forces us to also host the sources (GPL2, GPL, etc.).
And technically, those packages that have sources in /other/ can be skipped by the sourceball script, as it makes it redundant. But then again, it's not much extra space :)