[tex-live] Outstanding question about Hebrew and Greek hyphenation patterns

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:23:41AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2013-09-21 at 21:35:30 +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
>  > Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  > 
>  > > The problem is that different people have different requirements.  At
>  > > a first glance it sounds reasonable to have an installation scheme
>  > > "Plain TeX" but those who are using XeTeX or LuaTeX probably prefer to
>  > > rely solely on system fonts while others need all the fonts provided
>  > > by TeX Live.  Hence it's not possible to create a scheme for Plain TeX
>  > > users which satisfies the needs or expectations of all of them.
>  > 
>  > Well, is that true ?  As a 99% XeTeX user, I have no problem with
>  > acquiring 76 Computer Modern fonts plus Latin Modern and whatever
>  > other Metafont-based fonts are in TeX Live.  They, in comparison
>  > to the unbelievably large number of LaTeX packages, will take little
>  > time and take up little space.
> 
> The space consumed by LaTeX packages is ridiculous.
> 
> du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/{fonts,tex/latex}
> 1.3G	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts
> 116M	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex

That was mt immediate reaction, too, then I remembered the
documentation:

du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/{fonts,tex/latex,doc/latex}
1.3G	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts
116M	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex
1.1G	/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex

Regards,
Khaled