From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.112.181.10 with SMTP id ds10mr299876lbc.3.1443702504086; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:24 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.180.102.34 with SMTP id fl2ls136266wib.21.gmail; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.208.7 with SMTP id ma7mr433285wic.5.1443702503559; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-x233.google.com (mail-wi0-x233.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c05::233]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c7si69907wiy.3.2015.10.01.05.28.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::233 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c05::233; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::233 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=chneuk...@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass head...@gmail.com Received: by mail-wi0-x233.google.com with SMTP id fx3so25678682wic.0 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=lBQUtU+rPb99AEq+aKFKAxIG3jz2KQFJAXhIssvt7o4=; b=y+IMzPv9zPvfhAI+G662+A+jyNmNglxlTG2yJjGhVzdpgDCOjW0LJq6eaG0Z8cDyug vUnPnX/gbSiBEDyI7nQtxgyrETPmD2Mje/utut8IpN5yrE7+q7nOywLmi5HjADNVFNod IDJHX8ICK5QeqzRaPxWGPZrwjuNIdelWMfTNRAcdQ1FW+8YA14jhIrgUNNJUg/jMHkV0 JhGXDHLldG5zf7SLfLizyiJB9+1xa+gKBx9JvqUJhizn6Ejw0HMUU2cBXVQzw39jRf0W Um3/DAk+vPGix/oYfZyYY4vCz39+9LwxQW/CRofJg3MzWAVvdexC6FJSJG//pbXrtmTu WtVg== X-Received: by 10.180.8.164 with SMTP id s4mr3239198wia.5.1443702503416; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from juno.home.vuxu.org ([2001:4ca0:0:f231:a288:b4ff:fea1:ce50]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p4sm2938245wia.15.2015.10.01.05.28.21 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (juno.home.vuxu.org [local]) by juno.home.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 29f03e3b; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:28:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Neukirchen To: Donald Allen Cc: voidlinux Subject: Re: xbps-install of texlive very slow References: Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:28:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Donald Allen's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2015 05:22:50 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87612qrcwq.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Donald Allen 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 http://chneukirchen.org