First thing I've noticed about texlive-core 2011 was that the source tarball has grown about four times. Most of the growth is caused by bundling biber binaries (utils/biber). biber upstream uses on shipped binaries some perl scheme that packs it with all perl modules it requires in one ELF file - texlive uses those. If feasible, it would be welcome if Gentoo could unbundle that.
+*texlive-core-2011-r2 (31 Jul 2011) + + 31 Jul 2011; Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> + -texlive-core-2011-r1.ebuild, +texlive-core-2011-r2.ebuild: + do not "build" biber, its a prebuilt binary -> not for us, well see about + making an ebuild for it later, by Rafał Mużyło in bug +
Okay, so we've unbundled biber... which leaves Gentoo biber users high and dry. Is there an ebuild for this in the pipe? When I create a biber package with g-ctan, I get a Gentoo ebuild with 6 files in it, none of which is the biber executable, so that's not a solution.
See bug #340353
