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-TeXLive (TeXLive binaries, support files, docs, TeX formats)
+TeXLive (TeXLive binaries, support files, TeX formats)
-This package contains the binaries, support files, documentation, TeX formats
-and packages, and other files required for the TeXLive TeX distribution.
-Included are input files for TeX, runtime configuration files, hyphenation
-tables, manpages, and the computer modern fonts.
+This package contains the binaries, support files, TeX formats and packages,
+and other files required for the TeXLive TeX distribution. Included are
+input files for TeX, runtime configuration files, hyphenation tables,
+manpages, and the computer modern fonts.
-The resulting package is over 1GB in size, and a lot of space is required
-during the build process, so you might want to consider defining an
-alternate location for TMP and OUTPUT if you have small /tmp partition.
+The resulting package is very large, and a lot of space is required during
+the build process, so you might want to consider defining an alternate
+location for TMP and OUTPUT if you have small /tmp partition.
Note that this package is intended to completely replace (and then some) the
tetex packages in Slackware, so you'll need to remove tetex and tetex-doc
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ before installing TeXLive (but NOT before BUILDING it). For the sake of
clarity, this means that you must have the tetex package installed when
you build texlive the first time; after that, the texlive package that's
already installed is sufficient.
+
+Have a look at the texscythe package to see how the texmf tarball was
+created from the original download from upstream.