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diff --git a/office/texlive/README b/office/texlive/README index fd1519b506..35ea5a0949 100644 --- a/office/texlive/README +++ b/office/texlive/README @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -TeXLive (TeXLive binaries, support files, docs, TeX formats) +TeXLive (TeXLive binaries, support files, TeX formats) -This package contains the binaries, support files, documentation, TeX formats -and packages, and other files required for the TeXLive TeX distribution. -Included are input files for TeX, runtime configuration files, hyphenation -tables, manpages, and the computer modern fonts. +This package contains the binaries, support files, TeX formats and packages, +and other files required for the TeXLive TeX distribution. Included are +input files for TeX, runtime configuration files, hyphenation tables, +manpages, and the computer modern fonts. -The resulting package is over 1GB in size, and a lot of space is required -during the build process, so you might want to consider defining an -alternate location for TMP and OUTPUT if you have small /tmp partition. +The resulting package is very large, and a lot of space is required during +the build process, so you might want to consider defining an alternate +location for TMP and OUTPUT if you have small /tmp partition. Note that this package is intended to completely replace (and then some) the tetex packages in Slackware, so you'll need to remove tetex and tetex-doc @@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ before installing TeXLive (but NOT before BUILDING it). For the sake of clarity, this means that you must have the tetex package installed when you build texlive the first time; after that, the texlive package that's already installed is sufficient. + +Have a look at the texscythe package to see how the texmf tarball was +created from the original download from upstream. |