Package too big

[mtparet]

I'm updating from mandriva 2010.2 on a free wifi (a low speed network).
And the package perl-Algorithm-Diff-1.190.200-3.mga1.noarch.rpm is too bid... 293 MB ! Ouch!

Should we divide this package ?

[jkerr82508]

I think that you may have mis-identified the culprit. On my mirror perl-Algorithm-Diff-1.190.200-3. is about 42KB.

Jim

[wobo]

Looks like texlive-texmf-20100722-14.mga1.noarch.rpm : 300,685 KB

There were already discussions in the -dev mailing list about the size.

[mtparet]

Here : http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mir ... noarch.rpm : 300 MB

@wobo, I'm going to read this mailing list

[morgano]

One problem is that it is very big, and it would be a good idea to split it up.

What is that package useful for ?

How did it get into my systems ? I never asked for it.
(texlive-texmf is a dependency of texlive, but why do i have that installed?)

This package hurts when on a slow connection, and when the SD is pretty full.

Purged it from 3 systems so far saving 500 MB disk space each time.
(not missing anything yet...were there extra fonts?)

[ozky]

Too big ??? in mandriva 2010.1 texlive-texmf was 4.4gigas so i don't think it is too big in mageia it's 300megas.

[doktor5000]

It's still too big, but sadly IIRC it has everything needed for a basic texlive/latex setup.
But you can query which package requires it currently if you have it installed:
rpm -q --whatrequires texlive or rpm -q --whatrequires texlive-texmf
There are quite some packages that require one of those, f.ex. fontforge, lilypond, wv, ghostscript-dvipdf,
gtk-doc or kile.

[morgano]

Nothing i have installed requires any texlive*
Strangely it was installed on both my main mga1 workstation and my mga1 server, which had KDE4 but not office programs selected at install time.
Seems the mga1 installer defaults to install this somehow?
Cauldron install made two months ago seem not to have this issue, so i let it rest...

If you have to pull 300 MB at install through dialup or slow vireless internet, and redo it as surproises later at updates, it is no fun.
Also consider if you do not have much space, over 500 MB installed, plus it uses 300 MB storage during download.