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Re:LyX – The Document Processor by lwf on Sunday February 14, 2016 @09:24PM (#11101169)
Most of the dependency weight is due to -doc packages. For example, `texlive-latex-extra-doc` is a 325MiB download.

Here's a (partial) listing of the dependencies that were automatically selected sorted by download size†:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/950vm93v1ncna6x/lyx_synaptic.png?d...

So you can avoid a lot of your disk space usage by excluding‡ the -doc packages.

†: I haven't figured out how to get Synaptic to show estimations of unpacked sizes on a per-package basis

‡: In aptitude, `- .*-doc` I think?

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