From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.194.118.65 with SMTP id kk1mr1449799wjb.5.1443709206345; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:06 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.180.184.166 with SMTP id ev6ls161018wic.28.canary; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.109.233 with SMTP id hv9mr1454327wjb.1.1443709205958; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com (mail-wi0-x22a.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q6si88040wif.2.2015.10.01.07.20.05 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of chneuk...@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a 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-x22a.google.com with SMTP id fx3so30876648wic.0 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:05 -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=KKVQ9PWI9cvB2BBJSlWwz6ZDT84Gbdme9oUknPcU9Yc=; b=0z39IVeQ5Y2/+Wbjz6PcxXMPhOI+IlCSfleMIdE7ltmoF1LAaLcwSjwxRrRb400bJn igYVkeVJVBKdhp5beo/7E+A7X/fK4J0QP4a5+7O1fs3OYDspu3kTBAfa3pOEsud/47Yy SLCY9TfENPUQobn3HnE9sYjmh7qYhMUPqBrrqVJi+Lo6cXpkzteK2e7KKqaigqcI46b7 XZgIIhheCvKxSqOaz1CLJXrD5anEDW3nGPNA9gfaLobPJPYRVeCQ2e3aXWn/q6FuzTza 6Lkgoo26QuiiV94rOQs8qT0JPd1wDqrFBlU5R4RtQUvzryl2wbrK8q86hswwcmgP7xD9 eVEg== X-Received: by 10.194.110.4 with SMTP id hw4mr10732105wjb.135.1443709205837; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:05 -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 pg5sm6394360wjb.21.2015.10.01.07.20.04 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (juno.home.vuxu.org [local]) by juno.home.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 5e88aac5; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 14:20:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Neukirchen To: Donald Allen Cc: voidlinux Subject: Re: xbps-install of texlive very slow References: <87612qrcwq.fsf@gmail.com> <6fa0ab6d-60b3-4f03-88aa-2d7f27e1e13c@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:20:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6fa0ab6d-60b3-4f03-88aa-2d7f27e1e13c@googlegroups.com> (Donald Allen's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:15:01 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87wpv6pt63.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: >> 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. >> > > 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. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org