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Nikola Lecic wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:15:57 -0700
> Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> Nikola Lecic wrote:
>>     
>>> Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean
>>> by "light version"?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> One of original arguments for not porting TeXLive was that the
>> program is simply to big
>> (over 1Gb). Having downloaded TeXLive (binaries only) on several 
>> occasions for my friends over DSL I can confess that that is really
>> the case (at least 3 hours for binaries over 1.5Mps DSL connection) .
>>     
>
> Binaries are 38M:
>
>   % du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/
>    38M    /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/
>
> (~270 binaries).
>
> texmf-dist/: common, platform-independent resources: 972M
> texmf-doc/: 136M
>
>   
>> I purpose that the program be ported in the style of Gnome. Light
>> strip down version which would
>> be the minimal fully functional configuration,
>> "full" (English language) version with all bells, and then another
>> port with the support for different languages, another port Music
>> part of the TeXLive etc.
>>     
>
> Well, yes, of course, this is the way it was done where TeXLive was
> ported (OpenBSD, Debian...): as modularised as possible.
>
>   
>> The idea of dividing the port is just
>> initial and should be more carefully considered by the people who
>> know more about various aspects of TeX that I do not use.
>>     
>
> What makes you think they are not aware of this?
>
> Nikola Lečić
>   
Well, I hope that they are aware but it seems that nobody is acting on 
these issues(or at least not fast enough).