Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > What a great idea! The file > development/Win32/packaging/installer/Packages.txt > is what Uwe used to tell MiKTeX what to install (and which I'll use to > build the batch files). I believe it is meant to include everything that > LyX could ever possibly want. That would do, I suppose. It's 319 > packages, or so says 'wc -l', but it probably doesn't end up being a > whole ton of space, and some of them may already be installed. > Alternatively, we could try to pare the list down a bit to packages > people are more likely to need.
If we wanted to spare some download time/install time the best place would be to strip the docs. I measured it some time ago - the basic TL packages nedeed were ~300 mb and their documentation 1.5 GB... I'm pretty sure instaler could be instructed not to use the docs. Pavel