Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/31/10 23:51 CST: > Thanks Randy. Do you have any idea waht is taking up so much space in > TeXLive? A new package that takes 500% of the old seems to be poorly > designed.
I don't think it is poor design as much as it is massive inclusion of every known TeX font and macro ever designed. Here is a breakdown (very crude, I have not tallied real numbers yet. .xz downloads = 1GB+ DESTDIR = 2.5 GB INSTALL = 2.5 GB Not sure what the build directory ends up at. So without even the build directory it is 6 GB+. Now, I make a tarball of my DESTDIR (I do that for every package, it creates a binary form of the package in case I want to reuse it, or check an installation for corruption). That tarball on my system is 1.3GB+ (bz2). The total on my system was close to 8GB total needed space during the build/install. Permanent space needed = 2.5 GB+ for the installation and if you keep source tarballs around, add another 1GB+. Disk hog, yes. But in the big scheme of things when you can now get terrabyte disk drives for $49.00, 4 GB of space is a drop in the pond. I actually get a kick out of folks who say they still compress their man pages. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.25] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 06:14:00 up 5 days, 9:11, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
