[tex-live] how to save 20 mbytes

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 04:42, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrotes:
> > attached [package sizes], if it helps. it just proves what a burden
> > cm-super is...
> 
> Something strang with counting algorithm... Some examples
> 92      c-pascal 9852+13595 bytes (du -ks can be also checked)
> 120     insbox   7669+70321
> 384     platex   45474+6567+48971+141096
> 5936    qfonts   53915+4576+276603+42626+56040+412921+9632
> not counting only .tpm and list files

thats odd. my strategy is to grab the package and do a du -s -k on the
resulting tree, then delete it


> There is qxcm! (since TeX Live 5 and 2000 ;-) It only needs some .fd and
> .sty files... (perhaps also some .enc files)
>               doc dvips  afm  pfm   tfm  type1
> 464 (?) qxcm 76064+2291+70896+8659+13240+176218
> 
> Anybody can do with it what is needed. Some volunteers needed...


if someone can explain how it all works and persuade the users, I'd be
thrilled
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