On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:58:51 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
> ...
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. The texlive-20100722-texmf.tar.xz file is huge. I think it is
> larger than anything else in BLFS by a factor of 4. I have no idea why
> the latex documentation alone approaches 1G. The download (on a fairly
> fast connection) took longer than the entire make.
>
This is because
- it contain as primary 'sources' as generated files
- almost every utility use static linkage
- almost every utility build begin 'from scratch', i.e.
build 'own' tangle, web, cweb, kpathea, etc..
- texlive tarball encapsulate almost all software you
have already (gzip, libz, unzip, libpng, gs, ... just why gcc,
glibc and linux kernel not here yet?)
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