[tex-live] Profile-based install: scheme plus selected extras?

[Norbert Preining]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Joseph Wright wrote:
> Indeed, that will avoid installing stuff. However, it won't avoid
> downloading it in the first place.

It *will* avoid downloading it ... the packages are split into
the runfiles, docfiles, and sourcefiles for each package, and only
those that are installed are downloaded.

Norbert

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