[tex-live] Minimal TeX system?

[Martin Schröder]

2006/9/24, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
>     I suppose I might like to have to have some nice fonts like Computer
>     Modern, etc.
>
> Indeed, it would not be possible to typeset anything without fonts :).

If you use pdfTeX to generate PDFs, you don't actually need any pfbs,
if you use just the default PDF fonts like Times and don't embed them.

Best
   Martin