From: Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com>
To: voidlinux <void...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: donald...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: xbps-install of texlive very slow
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:15:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6fa0ab6d-60b3-4f03-88aa-2d7f27e1e13c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87612qrcwq.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 8:28:24 AM UTC-4, Christian Neukirchen
wrote:
>
> Donald Allen <dona...@gmail.com <javascript:>> writes:
>
> > Installation (not downloading) of texlive-bin-2015_1 is very, very slow.
> > It's a big package, but I've done this on this same machine (2.5 Ghz AMD
> > dual-core processor, 4GB, 7200 rpm disk, / on an ext4 file-system) with
> > Arch (configured similarly) in far less time.
>
> Yes, this is because TeXLive's tlmgr is slow.
>
> Arch actually repacked TeXLive, but we chose not to do that due to
> lack of manpower and immediate outdatedness.
>
Thank you for the explanation. It's good to know that this is not something
inherent in the package manager, which is what I was concerned about. If
it's specific to texlive, then that's not a problem for me.
>
> --
> Christian Neukirchen <chne...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> http://chneukirchen.org
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 12:22 Donald Allen
2015-10-01 12:28 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-10-01 14:15 ` Donald Allen [this message]
2015-10-01 14:20 ` Christian Neukirchen
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