Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> What a great idea! The file
>     development/Win32/packaging/installer/Packages.txt
> is what Uwe used to tell MiKTeX what to install (and which I'll use to
> build the batch files). I believe it is meant to include everything that
> LyX could ever possibly want. That would do, I suppose. It's 319
> packages, or so says 'wc -l', but it probably doesn't end up being a
> whole ton of space, and some of them may already be installed.
> Alternatively, we could try to pare the list down a bit to packages
> people are more likely to need.

If we wanted to spare some download time/install time the best place
would be to strip the docs. I measured it some time ago - the basic
TL packages nedeed were ~300 mb and their documentation 1.5 GB...
I'm pretty sure instaler could be instructed not to use the docs.

Pavel

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