Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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.
I know I'm, old fashioned, but I like to keep my / partition at 10G and I don't use a separate /usr partition. Right now I only have about 1G free on that, and it includes tetex 3.0 nicely. Oh well. There are always symlinks. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
