John Nietzsche wrote:
Dear friends,
i am trying to get texlive installed in my computer. Inside the directory i saw:
robigo# pwd;ls -l
/usr/ports/print/texlive
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 7 20:59 CVS
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 173 Nov 2 2007 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 388 Sep 7 2007 Makefile.inc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:03 base
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Nov 2 2007 texmf-docs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:01 texmf-full
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:02 texmf-minimal
robigo#
I would like to install texmf-full and base. But i realized that base
depends on texmf-minimal.
I am obligated to install texmf-mininall and ended up with the
following packages:
Yes, because of dependences. Texmf-full means, as the name is
suggesting, EVERYTHING.
base, texmf-full and texmf-minimal and base
What is the diference between texmf-full and textmf-minimal?
If you are planing to write documents is English most likely you do not
need texmf-full unless you have a very special needs. If plan to you use
Cyrillic, Chinese, or Arabic you definitely need
texmf-full even for a very simple document.
Texmf-full contains far more macros and special purpose TeX packages
than texmf-base.
Best,
Predrag
Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
best regards.
