On 2017-07-02 17:15, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 09:29:07 -0400 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
rpm -qa *texlive* |wc -l 14
Hi Patrick,
Your point is well taken, but I don't consider you to be an 'average user' :) I've had two 42.2 installations in a row result in what appear to be unintentionally complete sets of texlive packages being installed, and, some of those odd package names tended to thwart my usual (albeit probably sloppy / rusty) cli mitigation efforts, hence my brief rant. :) I'm on to other issues now but I appreciate your feedback!
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa texlive* | wc -l 1727 cer@Telcontar:~> Yes, this is a known issue. If something wants or recommends texlive as a dependency, you get an awful lot of packages. And yes, they are intentionally that many so that you can choose exactly which of them you choose - as if anybody can select manually only 500 of them out of the list! If you want them out, find out what recommended them. Or ban them. I don't know which one is the master package. Maybe "texlive-2015.20150521-26.29.x86_64". -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)