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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by zimpenfish on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:24PM (#32535247)
MacTeX is 4.7GB which matches the 5GB he's talking about and...

"MacTeX installs TeX Live, which contains TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and virtually every TeX-related style file and font. [...] MacTeX also installs the GUI programs TeXShop, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and BibDesk. MacTeX installs Ghostscript, an open source version of Postscript."

Which is, as you say, considerably more than just "XeTeX".

(Also those are universal binaries containing both Intel and ARM versions which probably adds some heft.)

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by JadeNB on Saturday August 20, 2022 @05:55PM (#32535485)
> (Also those are universal binaries containing both Intel and ARM versions which probably adds some heft.)

Heh, I remember when "universal binaries" meant "PowerPC and Intel". Different universes ….

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by jhbadger on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:12PM (#32535609)
In the early/mid 1990s there were even "fat binaries" that had 68000 (the original Mac platform) and PowerPC binaries back when PowerPC was the new thing.
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