On 30 June 2012 23:38, Ken Brown wrote: > TeX Live upstream has thousands of packages, grouped into "collections". > Cygwin's TeX Live distribution, as originally packaged by Yaakov, has one > texlive-collection-* package for each upstream collection. I've just > discovered that about 1800 of the upstream packages, falling into about 40 > collections, have documentation that is currently not included in the Cygwin > packages. I don't know if this was on oversight on Yaakov's part or a > deliberate decision to omit most of the documentation. > > In any case, I think that the documentation is an integral part of TeX Live > and needs to be part of the Cygwin distribution. If I simply add it to the > texlive-collection-* packages, however, some of them drastically increase in > size. For example, the installation tarball for texlive-collection-latex > would increase from about 1MB to about 40MB. And for > texlive-collection-latexextra it would increase from under 10MB to over > 300MB.
Out of curiosity: what makes the documentation that outragreously big? Is it provided in every format known to mankind? Andy