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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by bmacho on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:32AM (#41377694)
> Strangely enough, I think the LaTex distribution qualifies, too. I tried to install it recently, and it wanted 1 GB of disk space! That's multiple times the size of the entire system disk when LaTeX was created...

There is the TinyTeX distribution, which is smaller. (Despite its name, it isn't tiny, or small, or medium in size, but it is also large. But smaller than the default LaTeX distribution with all the possible packages, source code and documents.)

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by mickmcq on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:40AM (#41380718)
My impression is that TinyTeX downloads required packages on the fly and can be quite tiny if you don’t use many packages.
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by bmacho on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:07PM (#41383066)
Well here in the project readme there is a table with the sizes: https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases (a bit outdated, they didn't refresh it). I downloaded TinyTex-1 for Windows, it's 338 MB uncompressed. It is _huge_ in my book.
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