[tex-live] scheme modern
Philipp Stephani
st_philipp at yahoo.de
Thu Jan 6 14:38:43 CET 2011
Am 06.01.2011 um 11:38 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> 2011/1/6 Uwe Siart <usenet at siart.de>:
>> Arno Trautmann <Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> I was wondering if it might be considered for the next TeXlive (2011 I
>>> hope) to provide an installation scheme "modern". This could be a
>>> scheme providing everything needed to work with, say, XeLaTeX,
>>> luaLaTeX, ConTeXt Mk IV etc. but drops a (quite large) number of old,
>>> deprecated packages (e.g. inputenc/fontenc for LaTeX).
>>
>> I'd call such a scheme "beta" rather than "modern". IMO the time is by
>> far not ripe to designate LaTeX and its packages "old and deprecated".
>>
>>> (I'm /not/ suggesting to drop those packages at all from TeXlive!)
>>
> I am not sure whether such a scheme will save much space. Of course
> you will not need fontenc and inputenc. In unix systems you will not
> save space by removing executables bcause they are just hard links.
Well, the tex and pdftex executables could go. Still at most a few megabytes.
> I think you probably save just a few megabytes but lose possibility to
> process someone else's files that assume LaTeX with inputenc and
> fontenc.
Not to mention that these two are part of the LaTeX kernel and thus must be provided even in the most minimal distribution.
What could be more fruitful is removing all Type-1 fonts and the corresponding supporting files:
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts $ du -ks * | sort -rn
335580 type1
171264 afm
139912 tfm
71792 opentype
43696 source
34088 vf
18080 cmap
14656 truetype
11276 misc
10156 ofm
4236 map
2812 enc
2692 ovp
864 sfd
856 cid
488 ovf
212 pk
24 fea
12 pfm
4 data
A "modern" scheme could get rid of at least the type1, afm, tfm, source, vf, cmap, ofm, map and enc directories. On my system (MacTeX 2010 with the full scheme) these sum up to 742 MiB.
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