> -- tetex-src is 100% in TeXLive

Yes.

> -- tetex-texmf is mostly a subset of TeXLive but I suspect the latter to 
> be much bigger (I may be wrong; haven't downloaded or used ever);

Almost all of the texmf content in teTeX and TeX Live have CTAN as
primary source. That makes the trees so similar. teTeX's tree is much much 
smaller:

TeX Live:
=========
    $ cd /t/texlive/Master/

    $ du -ms texmf*
    46      texmf
    940     texmf-dist
    122     texmf-doc
    11      texmf-var

    $ find texmf* -type f | wc
      55165   55165 2516019

teTeX
=====
    $ cd /t/src/tetex-texmf

    $ du -ms .
    278     .

    $ find . -type f | wc
      15634   15634  573300

> -- things like texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf are not in TeX Live and do 
> not seem to have an equivalent; documentation for TeXLive looks much more 
> generic (which is quite understandable).

TETEXDOC.pdf is part of teTeX's (and TeX Live's) source tree. So, if you
don't use the precompiled binaries of TeX Live, but the sources and run
  ./configure; make; make install
then, you will get an installed TETEXDOC.pdf.

Thomas

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