Re: [MiKTeX] Size of the 'minitoc' package

[Uwe S. <uwe...@tu...>]

Christian Schenk <cs...@mi...> writes:

> Yes, the minitoc is a real download monster. If the situation cannot
> be improved, then we can split the minitoc package (minitoc.tar.lzma &
> minitoc-doc.tar.lzma). The TL folks do it in this way.

To my thinking this solves the problem only partially. It still bloats
the MiKTeX repository (which no longer fits on a CD now) and actually,
when a package updates one should also get the up-to-date documentation.

My opinion is that the 'minitoc' documentation contains stuff that has
nothing to to with the package and is not important to the user. It's
not the purpose of 'minitoc' to inform about geographical language
issues. The maintainer actually just dumps wikipedia material into the
'minitoc' documentation and continues on bloating it with nonessential
material (with the latest update the .lzma file swelled from 45MB to
60MB).

I'll keep on discussing this with Jean-Pierre. I think the only
satisfactory solution is to flatten the package documentation and get
back to the core of important things again.

-- 
Uwe