[tex-live] how many bytes in a scheme or collection ?
jfbu
jfbu at free.fr
Wed May 10 08:42:42 CEST 2017
Hi Norbert
>> It would be nice to have the info displayed individually to
>> start with.
>
> You mean in the installer? Not by now, not sure I want to do this
> now.
Indeed, there isn't much space indeed where to display that info
>
>> And then it would be nice if later on tlmgr could provide this
>> too at a later stage, when one hesitates about installing an
>> additional whole collection via tlmgr.
>
> Could be done, in principle ...
... good !
>
>> Is there some way already to get
>> that info ?
>
> Yes, loop over the packages to be installed and add up the sizes
> given by tlmgr info.
I have always been a promoter of training kids to practice
mental arithmetic !
I also had a colleague who had a login script which
would refuse to start-up his station if he could not
solve in less than 20s some such computations...
...ok, will think about it,
Jean-François
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