Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> As texlive was updated vom 2007 to 2008 in factory, it also grew from
> 159MB to 266MB and that made the milestone2 DVDs exceed the limits you
> can burn on DVD.
>
> I made a quick hack and removed qt4 documentation, which is also impressive
> 90MB. Werner says that texlive upstream doesn't see the problem and doesn't
> provide a good way to split (it's own distribution is a DVD or 2 CDs). And
> there is our problem: With every release it eats more and more of the openSUSE
> DVDs and I'm afraid it exceeded a sane limit - as it's far from mainstream
> I would remove it.

The ~25000 files in /usr/share/texmf/fonts make up 90% of the
installed size. I wonder how many of those are actually used in a
typical document?

cu
Ludwig

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