On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:57, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus@xxxxxxx> 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.).
