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Re: TeXLive on Slackware

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In alt.os.linux.slackware jfbu <jfREMOVEbu@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 11/04/2016 10:59, Joost Kremers a ?crit :
>> John Forkosh wrote:
>>> [...] I'm not sure why there's no automatic subset
>>> of components corresponding to a "tl lite".
>>
>> Especially considering the fact that there is BasicTeX for OS X:
>>    https://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
>> It shouldn't be too difficult to update install-tl.sh to add an option
>> to just install the packages making up BasicTeX, right?  Such an option
>> would not only benefit Slackware, it may also be good for software which
>> uses TeX behind the scenes to produce pdf output, such as Pandoc.
>> (Pandoc actually makes an explicit effort to only use packages that are
>> installed with BasicTeX.)
> 
> According to the very detailed explanations provided by the
> author of BasicTeX :
>    http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/BasicTeX.pdf
> such an option seems to already basically exist: it is to use
> the "TeX Live small scheme"
>    Also one has to tell the install script not
> to install documentation nor source trees.
>    And Dick Koch instructs the install script not to build formats,
> but later does it manually for some reason sudo fmtutil-sys --all
> (perhaps after having configured paths).
>    The document above explains it all with complete details.
> Jean-Fran?ois

Thanks for the info, guys; I wasn't aware of BasicTeX.
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I was suggesting
(though I'd probably build some frequently-used-formats).
So it seems pretty clear slackware (and maybe some other
distributions) probably ought to be doing more or less the
same thing. Surely a better idea than 10-year-old teTeX.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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