[Mageia-dev] texlive-texmf huge file

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>From: andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net>
>Sent: Mar 19, 2011 6:39 AM
>To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] texlive-texmf huge file
>
>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

+1