From: Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com>
To: Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com>
Cc: voidlinux <void...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: xbps-install of texlive very slow
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:28:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87612qrcwq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6981b69-5871-4b96-beea-3939e26f7d32@googlegroups.com> (Donald Allen's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2015 05:22:50 -0700 (PDT)")
Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com> 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.
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
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2015-10-01 12:22 Donald Allen
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2015-10-01 14:15 ` Donald Allen
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