On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.). 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 :)
