Bug#468493: Wish: Installing texlive without documentation?
Hi Florian
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:28 +0000, Florian Schanda wrote:
> 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. :)
I am sorry, but I do not understand your problem. First of all, for
many texlive-* packages the documentation has been split off already.
Second, prosper does not depend on the texlive metapackage but on
texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended, and texlive-pstricks. I
can only assume that the prosper maintainer has verified that these
dependencies are really needed (including texlive-latex-recommended).
If not, then this would be a bug in the prosper package. The texlive
metapackage itself is discribed as
,----
| This metapackage provides a decent selection of the TeX Live packages
| which should suffice for the most common tasks.
`----
However, you are not forced to use this metapackage but can install
individual texlive-* packages. If there is any package that actually
depends on the texlive metapackage, then please tell us about this (or
file a bug report there), since this is not recommended behaviour.
Third, neither the texlive metapackage nor the prosper dependencies
contain any of the texlive-lang-* packages.
To me it looks like you have the tetex-* metapackages (which are no
longer dependencies of prosper!) installed. These do indeed pull in
quite a few texlive-* packages, but this is inevitable since they are
used for the transition tetex -> texlive and we have to ensure that
files that worked with tetex do also work after the transition to
texlive. However, you can remove these metapackages and reduce the
amount of installed texlive-* packages.
cheerio
ralf
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