Here is a link from macports. It may be of use. They have broken down to 50ish packages. (I didn't count.)
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/TeXLivePackages <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/TeXLivePackages>
- bug#27217: texlive is too big Ricardo Wurmus
- bug#27217: break up TeXlive for guix Matt Wette
- bug#27217: texlive is too big Mathieu Lirzin
