Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!panix.com!forkosh From: JohnF Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: TeXLive on Slackware Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <39078839-d883-4a26-a543-628d1857b86b@googlegroups.com> <570b7164$0$27817$426a34cc@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1460514056 3435 166.84.1.3 (13 Apr 2016 02:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:20:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com comp.text.tex:26659 alt.os.linux.slackware:26649 In alt.os.linux.slackware jfbu 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 )