Bug#468493: Wish: Installing texlive without documentation?
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 18:46 +0000, Florian Schanda wrote:
> On Saturday 01 March 2008 13:32:47 Norbert Preining wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is the output of apt-get install prosper:
>
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> doc-base docbook-xml dvipdfmx gs gs-common gs-gpl latex-beamer latex-xcolor
[...]
> xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils
> 0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 347MB of archives.
> After this operation, 711MB of additional disk space will be used.
Might it be that you are using lenny? A crucial fact that you didn't
tell us, because you didn't use reportbug on your report. In that case
it is clear: The version of prosper in lenny still uses tetex-*
packages as default dependencies. However, as we already explained,
the tetex-* packages have been replaced by metapackages that bring in
quite a lot of texlive-* packages. The prosper version in sid does not
have this problem, but hasen' migrated to lenny for quite some time
now. All this is unrelated to the texlive-* packages, though.
> > 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.
>
> That's unfortunate; I suppose I have to compile from scratch and make a custom
> package. Oh well, no problem either way.
No, just install prosper's dependencies before installing prosper:
apt-get install texlive texlive-pstricks prosper
should give you a much smaller installation.
cheerio
ralf
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