On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:27 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Julien, > > On So, 25 Mär 2012, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I noticed that the upgrade to the new texlive on my laptop wants to > > increase the installed size by 560M (from about 1G for texlive*). That > > seems like a rather big bump, so I was wondering if this was expected, > > and if anything could be done about it? > > Yes it is expected. TL grows every year, and since we skipped some > years now the increases piled up. > ok :/ > > In particular the biggest offenders seem to be: > > texlive-fonts-extra: 200M → 387M > > texlive-latex-extra-doc: 249M → 351M > > Yes. man ynew fonts. > > > plus 16 new dependencies. > > Are coming from the fact that we do not include many of the ttf/otf > fonts that are shipped in TeX Live, but use the ones that are already > packaged in Debian, and only provide links, otherwise TL, esp. > texlive-fonts-extra, would have increased even much more. > Well on the other hand I'm pretty sure I don't need 90% of those fonts, so some kind of split in smaller pieces might be nice. But I understand that's more work for you, so I'll swallow the extra 500M... Thanks for your reply. Cheers, Julien
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