[Tfug] The monster

[JD Rogers]

Yeah, I use texlive (latex for all my writing: dissertation, papers,
etc). If you want to try out latex, I recommend using kile. You will
be making beautiful documents in no time.

As far as your system wanting all the packages, that seems weird. What
distro are you using? If it downloads them but doesn't install, that
seems even stranger. With a debian derivative, you should be able to
install kde/gimp/etc without tex, but some packages may list tex as a
recommends. I believe you can opt out of that with the proper
aptitude/apt-get commands. If it downloaded but did not install
texlive, that is ever stranger. Again, under debian, you should be
able to "aptitude clean" to delete package cache without uninstalling
anything.

HTH,
JDR
--
Jeremy D. Rogers, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University



On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, erich<erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> I'm talking about TexLive
>
>   As far as I able to tell, my system doesn't need it, but the activation of
> certain USE flags has caused hundreds of TexLive files to be downloaded to
> my
> machines (641 to be exact).
>
>   I've discovered that certain features of KDE use it or to be more exact
> just part of it. But, you can't have just the cream: They have to give you
> the whole
> cow.
>
>   As of this writing Gimp, Ooffice, Firefox, and KDE  are working, and
> texlive
> is not installed, but the package has been downloaded. (ugh)
>
>   I think it's a configuration management nightmare. Does anybody have
> texlive
> installed and is using it here?
>
>                                                                    Cheers,
>                                                                  Erich
>
>
>
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