[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Mar 21 02:12:23 CET 2009
On 19 March 2009 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Could we please avoid personnal attacks? It certainly helps no user
> in the world. Robin is (as all of us) spending much time to make
> things work as he thinks is the best. One can sometimes disagree on
> a particular point, but still respect his involvement and goodwill.
I agree. But don't be worried too much. Even if you see harsh words
in the mails, everything is fine as long as people respect each other.
> Anyway, directing everyone wanting to install TL to the Cambridge
> node is certainly not a good idea; that's obviously the whole point
> of mirroring. And you cannot expect every mirror admin to run on
> on-the-fly zipping.
I must admit that I don't understand the problem at all. Are you
talking about the ISO image? It's a snapshot from last year and
quite out-of-date. The preferred way to install TeX Live is to use
the network installer:
* You get the latest stuff.
* You don't have to download/install anything you don't need.
* The files you download are compressed by the most efficient
compression algorithm (lzma) available today.
What exactly is missing? What should be compressed dynamically?
Regards,
Reinhard
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