Bug 507046

Summary: texlive grew 70%
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component: OtherAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: gp
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Description Stephan Kulow 2009-05-26 10:18:19 UTC
Texlive.rpm was always large, but the size it has now is unacceptable to be on DVD. The new 2008 version is 266MB and that's just that single rpm alone.

There has to be a way to trim this, I can't afford another 100MB every year ;(
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-05-26 10:24:01 UTC
Sorry no way ... ask upstream and you'll see there is no way.
I've tried to strip and drop a lot of stuff in history and got
a lot of bugzillas about missing features of TeXLive.
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2009-05-26 11:26:01 UTC
too bad. Now you replace that bugzillas with bugs about not having texlive on the DVD. What a deal
Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-05-26 11:39:36 UTC
Sorry ... I've tried to get a TeTeX scheme into TeXLive which is much
smaller then nearly all and this had been accepted by the developer
community of TeXLive but not by the users its self.  As you do a drop
of some of the features you'll hurt a user.  AFAIK debian has also
nearly all but more sub packages but this would not help to save disk
space but only increase the questions about missing fonts (as the user
does not install fonts).
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2009-07-14 08:51:03 UTC
*** Bug 521567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-07-14 09:23:16 UTC
If anyone has a problem with that please report it upstream as
there is no way to skip any of the TeX/LaTeX files included
in TeXLive without destroying part of the package its self ...
Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2009-07-14 13:22:16 UTC
*** Bug 521567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***