[Mageia-dev] texlive-texmf huge file

Dexter Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 14:20:44 CET 2011


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:39 PM, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
> Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
>>
>> We are now using texlive and a require is texlive-texmf a 293 Mb download.
>> Is there any way to get around this. This package is not available to
>> folks
>> that still have a dial-up connection. It takes 30 minutes on a dsl
>> connection.
>> If I use dist-coffee, it will take 90 minutes.
>
> There is an update of an optional gedit module which I use that added that
> ridiculus requirement.  (So I have to keep remembering to avoid that
> update.)
> I'd really like to ban that package.
> (Unless you really want typesetting, that is.)
>
> --
> André
>

i am working on splitting this package but this take time.


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