[tex-live] "why is tex live so big"

[Martin Schröder]

2012/10/22 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> size can only be reduced by not installing the documentation. All
> binaries, scripts, style files, fonts etc are small, only the

<cough>cmsuper</cough>

> du -k --max-depth=1 /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/|sort -rn
2958292 /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/
1326012 /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc
1117276 /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts
238652  /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/source
216424  /opt/tex/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex

Fonts are _not_ small.

KerTeX tries to be a small TeX distribution.

Best
   Martin