[tex-live] scheme modern

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 6 16:34:29 CET 2011


On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:38:43PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> Well, the tex and pdftex executables could go. Still at most a few megabytes.

Even if a user might not want to use them, they might be used
by other tools. For example, pdfcrop uses pdftex with plain format
as default. (However, it can be overwritten by command line options
--xetex or --luatex; and option --ini would get rid of the plain format.)

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek


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