Re: Issues with and after upgrade to texlive
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>> At first I also had the texlive meta package unselected. Adding that back
>> got me back to 201 MB _extra_ diskspace again, so I've decided to see if
>> I can do without or not...
>
> All the metapackages are meant as convenience for users. If you want a
> minimal installation for a particular purpose, e.g. building a package
> or document, you should select individual packages. For example,
> "texlive" as well as "tetex-bin" will select ConTeXt (from an external
> source package) which isn't needed at all if you process LaTeX
> documents.
Currently, tetex-bin Depends: texlive. If we change that to
Depends: texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended, \
texlive-fonts-recommended
then we loose files that used to be installed with tetex (notably
context), but I think we'll get much closer to what most people actually
used of tetex-bin. And ConTeXt users will know what they miss, anyway.
This "will use 64.6 MB of disk space" and, together with an entry in
NEWS.Debian, should make most people happy.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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