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Re: texlive size increase



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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