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Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!)

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On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:12:58 +0000, JohnF wrote:
>>> Slackware has stuck with teTeX because tl is too "heavy". While it's
>>> easy enough to run install-tl and manually choose components, it
>>> would be nice to have a maintained install-tl-lite script so that the
>>> Slackware team could easily package tl with their linux distribution.
>>> I'd guess they'd want something in the ~250MB size (that's about what
>>> their teTeX uses).

On my Slackware 13.1 system teTex takes about 150 MB:

fgrep UNCOMPRE /var/log/packages/tetex-3.0-x86_64-8 
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     158940K

But what would be the point in replacing teTex with a stripped down 
TeXLive? I think that a full featured TeXLive would be useful as a 
Slackbuild script (searching at Slackbuilds.org you will find such 
scripts pointing to versions of TeXLive which are some months newer than 
their Slackware releases) or maybe even on an extra DVD shipped with 
Slackware.

But trying to strip down TeXLive would probably only end up in a number 
of threads in places like this where people also request feature ABC and 
XYZ from TeXLive which now is missing. I mean, if I understand you right, 
the whole point in replacing teTeX with TeXLive would be because TeXLive 
has features that teTeX is missing. Then why would you want a TeXLive 
with missing features? I am sure that you would be able to pick the most 
important features for you, but there are many different users out there 
and different users have different tastes when it comes to what is 
important.

regards Henrik
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Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! jfine2358@gmail.com - 2016-04-07 02:36 -0700
  Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 22:26 +0000
    Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2016-04-07 23:46 +0100
      TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-08 23:12 +0000
        Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 05:03 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2016-04-11 07:11 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:59 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware jfbu <jfREMOVEbu@free.fr> - 2016-04-11 11:41 +0200
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-13 02:20 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:07 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:54 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:12 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware Qun-Ying <zhu.qunying@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 11:13 -0700
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-13 18:39 +0000
      Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Dan Luecking <LookInSig@uark.edu> - 2016-04-13 12:52 -0500

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