[tex-live] texworks updates on darwin
Adam R. Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Wed Mar 30 15:57:02 CEST 2011
On Mar 30, 2011, at 03:27 , T T wrote:
> The amount of platform independent support files shipped as texworks
> package increased quite a bit since the previous version. I'm not
> sure if there is anything we can do about it.
OK, just curious. I don't pay by the kB for downloads, anyway. Even
if I were to install texworks, though, presumably it would drag along
its own copies of all these files.
> People not wanting it
> can always (forcefully, if necessary) remove it from their
> installations.
Sure, but I'm hesitant to remove it if other packages are really
dependent on it. Tlmgr sez
... needed by scheme-full scheme-gust scheme-medium
Can this safely be ignored? I don't care about scheme-gust, but
scheme-full and scheme-medium sound rather important :).
Strangely, after forcibly removing collection-texworks, it's still
using 20 MB of disk space:
$ tlmgr show collection-texworks
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
package: collection-texworks
category: Collection
shortdesc: The TeXworks Editor
installed: No
$ du -sk /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/texworks
20156 /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/texworks
There are a bunch of PS fonts, .pyc files (for Windows?!), and
a bunch of poppler junk, including a Makefile. Why wasn't this
removed when I removed collection-texworks? I'm using tlmgr
from tlcritical, if that matters:
$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 21872 (2011-03-29 01:22:26 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2010
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2010
thanks,
Adam
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