setting up a minimal TeXLive?
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Nov 25 18:49:00 GMT 2013
On 11/25/2013 1:11 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25 2013,Ken Brown wrote:
>
>
> [snipped 6 lines]
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>> My recommendations for getting started are near the end of the release
>> announcement:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-06/msg00030.html
>>
>> I recommend *not* updating CTAN packages between releases of TeX Live
>> unless there is a bug that's impeding your work or a new feature that
>> you need. If that happens, you can send email to the cygwin list and
>> I'll either update the corresponding texlive-collection-* package or
>> give you further instructions.
>>
>
> Thanks for the information, appreciate it. From the mail link above
>
> Standard: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its
> dependencies
>
> If I choose the above package, then setup will automagically recommend
> the dependencies before it starts, right?
Yes.
> And is there a bit of documentation on the groupings of the files
> i.e. what's in each group of the cygwin texlive* groups?
They correspond precisely to the upstream TeX Live collections.
Download the file
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
and search for lines of the form "name collection-*" or "category
Collection".
Ken
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