Hello Nicolas,
Am Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 04:20:01PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou:
> FWIW, I think texlive-scheme-* packages are opinionated collections that
> have no other purpose than recreating past TeX distributions. One should
> only rely on texlive-collection-* packages.
> What collection to elect is another topic. If space is not an issue, and
> you don’t want to bother with optimized dependencies,
> texlive-collection-latexextra (1GB, around 1.4k packages) provides
> almost everything needed to compile LaTeX documents, including PGF/TikZ
> (no PSTricks, that’s in another collection). You may also want to add
> texlive-babel-XXX for non-English languages.
thanks for your helpful suggestions! I think here again latency for
downloading a lot of packages is an issue. In the end I gave the
following a try: texlive-collection-latex,
texlive-collection-latexrecommended, texlive-collection-xetex,
texlive-babel, texlive-babel-{english,french,german},
plus a few eclectic packages I happen to use.
For compiling a set of slides of a talk, now time is an issue:
real 0m36,095s
user 0m13,706s
sys 0m22,710s
With the monolithic texlive:
real 0m9,127s
user 0m9,260s
sys 0m0,613s
(which is already a lot when one has to recompile every time after
making a small change).
This looks a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75893 .
I should test with your fix on the tex-team branch.
Andreas
