Re: texlive-latex-extra-doc
Dear Philippe,
please stay on list when discussing the TeX Live packages for Debian.
> From that, I can predict that texlive-latex-extra future in Africa is not bright in the coming years.
Sorry to hear, but breaking the license agreements would guarantee
a even less enjoyable future.
> If you where just working for packages rendered useless by their HUGE size, I wouldn't care, but your obstination disbalance the whole distro.
Then please, instead of ranting, propose a solution: One would be that
*YOU* go through all packages and contact all authors for agreement.
Are you willing to do this?
> The fact is that if I would install it (that I didn't, thanks to --no-install-recommends), it would be the BIGGEST package on my machine with 386Mb installed, way above libreoffice-core with "only" 150Mb.
I know well enough, my laptop - the main development machine - is filled
with 60% of TeX Live, various releases, testing, packages, ...
> dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
Actually, texlive-fonts-extra is even bigger ;-) the last items are:
285846 texlive-lang-japanese
447204 texlive-latex-extra-doc
584771 texlive-fonts-extra
But since you ask, if you are *really* so desperate, I suggest the following:
* create a equivs package for texlive-full
* install texlive from TUG with scheme-minimal, without docs and source
* install only those packages you need
This way you can get an absolutely minimal system.
More information at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html
section "Integrating vanilla TeX Live with Debian",
incidently also written by me ...
Thanks for remaining so reasonable in you argumentation ...
Norbert
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