setting up a minimal TeXLive?

[Ken Brown]

On 11/25/2013 1:11 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25 2013,Ken Brown wrote:
>
>
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>> My recommendations for getting started are near the end of the release
>> announcement:
>>
>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2013-06/msg00030.html
>>
>> I recommend *not* updating CTAN packages between releases of TeX Live
>> unless there is a bug that's impeding your work or a new feature that
>> you need.  If that happens, you can send email to the cygwin list and
>> I'll either update the corresponding texlive-collection-* package or
>> give you further instructions.
>>
>
> Thanks for the information, appreciate it.  From the mail link above
>
> Standard: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its
> dependencies
>
> If I choose the above package, then setup will automagically recommend
> the dependencies before it starts, right?

Yes.

> And is there a bit of documentation on the groupings of the files
> i.e. what's in each group of the cygwin texlive* groups?

They correspond precisely to the upstream TeX Live collections. 
Download the file

   http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb

and search for lines of the form "name collection-*" or "category 
Collection".

Ken


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