Flatpak and LaTeX

[Alexander Larsson]

On ons, 2016-06-22 at 09:46 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:14:21AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > What would be nice is if someone came up with a build of latex for
> > e.g.
> > the freedesktop runtime. Then every app that uses latex could just
> > bundle that, and by virtue of ostree deduplication every app would
> > share this, being essentially as efficient as if it was in the
> > runtime,
> > but not requiring everyone to download it.
> If the LaTeX applications are on different repos, the user would need
> to
> download several times the TeX Live build, no? Deduplication works
> only
> inside the same ostree repo AFAIK. So there could be a LaTeX repo
> with
> TeX Live and LaTeX apps.

Each remote repo would have to store all the objects, but when you're
downloading an app they all share a repo on your system, so objects
that have the same sha256 but are from different remotes are still
shared. I.e. you will not have to download them if you already have
them.

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