[tex-live] scheme modern

[jfbu]

Hi everybody,

for users of Mac OS X, Dick Koch proposes a subset of full TeX Live  
2010,
"Basic TeX", it amounts to less than 100 MB, see his web page
http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/
and especially the pdf file BasicTeX.pdf

http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/BasicTeX.pdf

which explains the rationale behind it.

however as I became aware of it after installing scheme-full I did not  
try out and have no further comment, just wanted to bring it to your  
attention as it does not seem to have been noticed

Jean-Francois

Le 9 janv. 11, à 16:03, Reinhard Kotucha a écrit :

> On 9 January 2011 Arno Trautmann wrote:
>
>> Ok, so from your answes I conclude: There is not much
>> interest/necessarity/possibility to provide a smallish "modern"
>> scheme.
>
> I fear that nobody will use it because nobody cares about disk space
> nowadays.  Even if this is a problem in particular cases, you won't
> get it so small that the effort is worthwhile.  If you want such a
> scheme with TeX Live, you can't drop all the language support files or
> language-specific documentation.  If you launch the installer, go to
> the collections menu, and deselect all collections, you still need
> 703 MB.  This doesn't contain any macro package, font, or package
> documentation files so far.  I really doubt that you get something
> useful which is much smaller than abt. 1.6 ... 2 GB.
>
> If you have package updates via the internet in mind, it doesn't make
> sense to drop stuff which is stable for decades, such as most fonts.
>
> As I said recently, IMO schemes are quite useless.  Maybe even rather
> confusing than helpful.
>
> I fear that you invest a lot of time into something which looks like a
> good idea at a first glance and finally you are disappointed when you
> recognize that almost nobody is using it.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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