Re: xbps-install of texlive very slow

[Christian Neukirchen <chneuk...@gmail.com>]

Donald Allen <donald...@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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. 

Yes, the package only contains the real TeXLive installer, which is slow.
However since you only update it once a year, this was not a reason to
spend much time speeding it up.

XBPS itself is amongst the fastest package managers I've used.

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