I like the latter, as I do not want *extras* just for pdftex. Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
It seems that there are two problems; one ispdftex/pdflatex did not work without tetex-extra and the other is pdftex.fmt/pdflatex.fmt were not removedwhen tetex-extra was removed. Which is the problem you want to solve?
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