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Bug#468493: marked as done (Wish: Installing texlive without documentation?)

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Package: texlive
Version: 2007-13

When installing texlive or anything that depends on it (such as prosper), a 
huge amount of documentation and language specific things are installed.

It would be nice to not have to do this -- I have a laptop with a 4GB hard 
drive and texlive takes up about 700 MB this way.

I suggest that package texlive-latex-recommended is only just that -- 
recommended; not required. :)

	Florian

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On Fr, 29 Feb 2008, Florian Schanda wrote:
> When installing texlive or anything that depends on it (such as prosper), a 
> huge amount of documentation and language specific things are installed.

Wrong. You either installed one of the transitional tetex-* packages
depending on a huge amount of texlive packages (necessary evil to cover
all files from former tetex packages), or you are installing recommended
packages. Most texlive packages split off the doc files into -doc
packages which are only recommended, socalling aptitude with
--without-recommended etc will NOT install those files.

Since we in fact have to distribute the doc files with the style files
but we agreed with the authors that recommending them is ok, this will
and cannot be changed.

Closing this bug.

> I suggest that package texlive-latex-recommended is only just that -- 
> recommended; not required. :)

Of course, if you want to write plain TeX code without any goodies,
definitely.

Best wishes

Norbert

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