[arch-general] package sources on ftp.archlinux.org

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
> Stefan Husmann a écrit :
>> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> I don't know about the texlive-*-doc packages from community, which are
>>>> maintained by Stefan Hussman. Feel free to ask him directly or to
>>>> file a
>>>> bug report.
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> It's also possible that the -doc packages are farther behind, and
>>> sources have been removed for those simply because they're not up to
>>> speed with the official texlive packages
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the -doc packages are far behind because I did not manage to build
>> them correctly, i.e to download the doc packages in a similar way
>> Firmicus does for the normal packages. I did not upload the zip-files
>> to ftp.archlinux.org because I do not see a reason for doing so and
>> the packages are quite big. No user probably wants
>> to update a the packages that way or will be able to do so.
>> Regards Stefan Husmann
>
> 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?