[Bug 908071] New: Installing "LaTeX" installs > 1000 packages (>500MB)
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908071 Bug ID: 908071 Summary: Installing "LaTeX" installs > 1000 packages (>500MB) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- When installing LaTeX using YaST, more than 1400 packages and more than 800MB of software is downloaded before anything is installed. This can't be serious!
rpm -qa texlive-\* | wc -l 1451
Do I really need things like "texlive-bibleref-french-2013.84.2.3.1svn27098-17.1.7.noarch" or any of these?: texlive-babel-catalan-2013.84.svn30259-17.1.7.noarch texlive-babel-breton-2013.84.svn30257-17.1.7.noarch texlive-babel-basque-2013.84.svn30256-17.1.7.noarch (just a very few examples) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908071 Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bwiedemann@suse.com, | |dleuenberger@novell.com, | |werner@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> --- It is >1400 texlive packages. In earlier times tex was just one big 300MB rpm so any minor change would need a huge update. you can try zypper in --no-recommends texlive which gives 9 new packages to install. Overall download size: 946.8 KiB. After the operation, additional 1.3 MiB will be used. but I guess then you will be missing many things. I am not sure, what is the best way to get a working but not bloated texlive -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908071 --- Comment #2 from Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> --- First, YaST does not offer a comparable option, and it does not tell you before how many MBs it will download. Second, given the size of texlive, wouldn't it be easier to offer an ISO download that can be added as a local repository? The time when there was one huge package ist quite some time ago, just as the time when I had Linux, X11, gcc and Emacs on a machine with 8MB RAM and a 20MB partition... ;-) I just don't like bloated software. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908071 Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WONTFIX |FIXED --- Comment #4 from Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> --- (In reply to Werner Fink from comment #3)
I will *not* fix this. This is how upstream handle this and this is how we handle this now. [...] Btw: Reopen will not work as I will not gonna change this.
Yes, Werner, I know you are maintaining TeX for quite some time, and you are hard to convince. But can you blame a user who does a package search on "latex" in YaSt, then selects "texlive-latex" for installation? All the bad rest is done by YaST. This cannot be the solution! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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