Bug 294828

Summary: texlive is huge
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component: OtherAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dmueller
Version: Alpha 6   
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Description Stephan Kulow 2007-07-26 16:55:30 UTC 
I wanted to view a .dvi file and installed the kde dvi viewer. This dragged in 270MB and I wonder if texlive shouldn't be split a bit further, so that I can render dvi files without 258MB.

Summary:
<install>   [S3:0][package]kdegraphics3-tex-3.5.7-22.i586
<install>   [S3:0][package]perl-Tk-804.027-69.i586
<install>   [S3:0][package]t1lib-5.1.0-33.i586
<install>   [S3:0][package]texlive-bin-2007-46.i586
<install>   [S3:0][package]texlive-2007-46.noarch
Continue? [y/n]: y
Downloading package perl-Tk-804.027-69.i586, 2,1 M (6,5 M unpacked)
Installing: [S3:0][package]perl-Tk-804.027-69.i586
Downloading package t1lib-5.1.0-33.i586, 718,6 K (1,2 M unpacked)
Installing: [S3:0][package]t1lib-5.1.0-33.i586
Downloading package texlive-bin-2007-46.i586, 2,4 M (6,5 M unpacked)
Installing: [S3:0][package]texlive-bin-2007-46.i586
Downloading package texlive-2007-46.noarch, 123,6 M (258,5 M unpacked)
Installing: [S3:0][package]texlive-2007-46.noarch
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2007-07-26 17:05:46 UTC 
WONTFIX due to the fact that always I've split someparts off always those
parts are missed. And it is a nigthmare of maintaince to split e.g. the docs
of because most users relay on those docs.  And there there is always a
package which requires an other part of texlive splitted off a few mintues
ago ...

Btw: dvi files are out, use pdftex or pdflatex and xpdf or acroread.
Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2007-07-27 13:08:46 UTC 
the binary okular/kdvi need is kpsewhich and kpathsea. 

looking at the debian package, this is separated and roughly pulls in 26MB. not that great, but a lot better than ten times as much.
Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2007-07-27 13:31:12 UTC 
Maybe aou would love to become texlive maintainer ... To be noted: I'll not
split texlive into useless parts.

Beside this: list the size of the *base* of texlive and *base* texlive-latex
together with texlive-fonts-extra debian packages and you will see that they
are much bigger then 26MB.  Please note, that the last package is IMHO
always installed because most documents ues other fonts.  And please do compare
with texlive 2007 from debian ... texlive 2005 is known to be smaller.