Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, songbird wrote: >> Rusi Mody wrote: >> > Context: >> > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about >> > the difficulties of downloading texlive. >> > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image >> > - The user was on a slow/flaky line > >> texlive should not be that large? > > https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-iso.html > says 2+ Gb
ah, looking at my local system i see i only have the base system installed and not much extra, so it runs about 80M to download. >> > In response the texlive folks admitted that there was a problem without >> > a clear solution. >> ... > >> on a slow connection debdelta is useful at times. >> seems they don't know it exists. > > debdelta can work for windows? not too likely. thought this was a debian linux related question... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/chredb-v02....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
