Bug ID 1037752
Summary Texlive consist of too many packages
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 42.2
Hardware All
OS openSUSE 42.2
Status NEW
Severity Enhancement
Priority P5 - None
Component Other
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter iattilagy@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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I wanted to compile a .tex file, so I issued a "zypper in
texlive-latex-bin-bin" that grabs about 1600 packages as dependencies, most
about 20kB in size. Downloading them took nearly an hour on my 500Mbit/s
connection. This could be a problem on upgrade too.
I think packages should be made larger if possible, no one downloads fonts
one-by-one. If you install the whole KDE distro from DVD it downloads about
3000 packages, latex shouldn't be half of that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Issue command zypper in texlive-latex-bin-bin
2. Say yes to download
3.
Actual Results:  
It started downloading 1600 packages.

Expected Results:  
Texlive should be packaged into reasonable number of rpms. Under 100 if
possible.


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