id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
17870	Possible: provide options to install less of texlive	ken@…	ken@…	"It would be nice to allow users to install a smaller part of the current year's texlive.

Looking at gentoo, they have a lot of different configure options to allow conditional compilation of various parts - but at this stage I have no idea how they handle the related texmf parts - and it is texmf which uses the space. I suspect they include texmf in their source, and I assume that will make it unmanageably large for us, and for our mirrors.

Looking at Arch, **all** their builds start from the binary install-tl-unix and install parts of into /usr, with various things to support their packaging. There is an AUR texlive full which installs in /opt, but it too uses the binary.

My understanding is that debian (and derivatives) compile from source and install parts, similarly fedora.

If providing instructions for a smaller build in BLFS, the builder will apparently need to have space for the untarred texmf tarball and then copy the necessary parts. That is true even for a minimal (non-latex) install."	enhancement	closed	normal	12.0	BOOK	git	medium	fixed