[tex-live] too many files
Radhakrishnan CV
cvr@river-valley.org
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:59:46 +0530 (IST)
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 20:30, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
I tried the 2 CD approach. Making a CD with just Windows and i386
Linux comes in at 648 mbytes; making a second CD without Windows
and i386 Linux comes in at 722 mbytes.
What I would suggest is to retain the current format of TeXLive,
ie., ready to run system for many platforms in a single CD. Most of
the users may not need support, goodies, web2c, sources, editors,
etc. We should judiciously scale down a working TeX system and burn
that in the first CD which is comprehensive enough to run.
The second CD can hold all the packages of advanced nature,
sparingly used fonts (for instance indic scripts), support, goodies,
web2c, sources, editors tree and the relevant documentation. We
should provide friendly scripts to install anything that is
included in the second CD easily.
While scaling down to make a runnable TeX system, some of the
packages like pdfscreen, pdftricks, pdfslide can be moved to the CD
No. 2. Obviously users can install any of these items easily if
they like.
The folliwng table of sizes for texmf may amuse you; as you can
see, its the fonts and documentation which do the damage. Ideas
like "compress all the source files" does not help much.
9188 Master/texmf/bibtex
832 Master/texmf/context
197448 Master/texmf/doc
==> partially to CD 2 like books, general documentation
160 Master/texmf/dvipdfm
3012 Master/texmf/dvips
1408 Master/texmf/fontname
259056 Master/texmf/fonts
==> cant we move some of the fonts to CD 2?
68 Master/texmf/hbf2gf
7644 Master/texmf/ispell
==> CD 2
100 Master/texmf/makeindex
444 Master/texmf/metafont
1052 Master/texmf/metapost
==> CD 2
924 Master/texmf/nts
==> CD 2
1892 Master/texmf/omega
==> CD 2
724 Master/texmf/pdftex
62336 Master/texmf/source
==> CD 2
57092 Master/texmf/tex
4660 Master/texmf/tex4ht
11004 Master/texmf/tpm
744 Master/texmf/ttf2pk
==> CD 2
8068 Master/texmf/web2c
==> CD 2
92 Master/texmf/xdvi
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Radhakrishnan