On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:01 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote: > > To give you an example, before the FC5 release I was asked whether I can > move tetex-doc to Extras what contains all the documentation in the > texmf tree so that it can be removed from Core, because the tetex-doc > RPM has more than 50M in size. I refused that of course. But there's a > hard pressure to make it smaller even if the total size of all teTeX > rpms is about 110M.
Ouch. OK - I just looked at why the TeX Live based packages I'm experimenting with produce much bigger doc and fonts package. I went through Fedora teTeX and only grabbed zip files from TeX Live that provided something that Fedora had. It seems that TeX Live has a lot of documentation that teTeX did not have, and it also seems that lot of documentation that teTeX had has dvi files, TeX Live has as PDF - and there is not a dvi file to justify deletion of the PDF. Just a random example - the totpages.dvi file in tetex 3 is about 28kb and the totpages.pdf file in tex live is about 200kb, ~ 8x the size. Also - the packaging I did results in about 150 more .pfb files. It looks like Thomas did some serious pruning with teTeX that has not been done with TeX Live. I wonder if debian has any statistics on which tex live packages are most requested by their users, so intelligent pruning to extras could be done.
