Hi Rod, If you search for a minimal TeX, then I suggest that you look into Typst.
> On 4. Nov 2026, at 9:25 PM, Roderick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Question1: What do you recommend to read pdf files? > > xpdf is unfortunately not anymore so minimal, it installs as dependency > among other things gtk, qt, wayland, cups, ... > > Question 2: > How do I find a TeX package? "pkg -Q tex" does not work. Look: > > # pkg_info -Q tex > p5-Text-CSV_XS-1.65 > > # pkg_info -Q tex- > latex-mk-1.9.1p3 > p5-LaTeX-Driver-1.3.1 > p5-LaTeX-Encode-0.092.0p0 > p5-LaTeX-Pod-0.23 > p5-LaTeX-TOM-1.06 > tex-by-topic-20230810v0 > > # pkg_info -Q texmf > texlive_texmf-buildset-2026 (installed) > texlive_texmf-context-2026 > texlive_texmf-docs-2026 > texlive_texmf-full-2026p0 > texlive_texmf-minimal-2026 > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Question 3 (for those that use tex): > > What is a minimal tex there? I installed R, and it installed > among other things tcl, clisp, gcc, texmf-buildset-2026 ... > > texmf-buildset contains tex, dvips, xdvi, perhaps is enough? > > I installed texlive_texmf-minimal, and it had not texmf-buildset-2026 > as dependency ... > ------------------------------ > > For avoiding texbomb packages, I used to compile TeX, buts if the bomb > will be installed as > dependency, it has not anymore sense. > > Thanks > Rod. >
