Unexpected behaviour when installing TeX Live 2023 with Scheme: Custom scheme

[David Carlisle]

You can see what's in the "xetex" collection

https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/collection-xetex.tlpsrc?revision=64951&view=markup

it includes arabxetex, bidi-atbegshi (and so atbegshi) and other stuff. If
you don't want that you should start with something more minimal such as
scheme-infraonly and just add what you need (that's what we do for
installing texlive to run tests in github actions)

David


On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 15:35, Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I installed TeX Live 2023 yesterday using Scheme: Custom scheme and Other
> collections : Windows-only support programs + XeTeX and packages and was
> surprised to see it installing
>
> Installing [1/6, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: hyphen-base [23k]
> Installing [2/6, time/total: 00:02/16:51]: kpathsea [1048k]
> Installing [3/6, time/total: 00:07/01:13]: luatex [1925k]
> Installing [4/6, time/total: 00:13/00:48]: texlive-scripts [533k]
> Installing [5/6, time/total: 00:19/01:00]: texlive.infra [548k]
> Installing [6/6, time/total: 00:24/01:05]: tlperl.windows [7087k]
> Time used for installing the packages: 00:35
> Installing [001/114, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: amsfonts [4725k]
> Installing [002/114, time/total: 00:11/06:40]: arabxetex [511k]
> Installing [003/114, time/total: 00:18/09:51]: atbegshi [409k]
> Installing [004/114, time/total: 00:25/12:41]: atveryend [380k]
> Installing [005/114, time/total: 00:33/15:41]: awesomebox [58k]
> Installing [006/114, time/total: 00:38/17:54]: babel [2110k]
> Installing [007/114, time/total: 00:48/16:47]: bibtex [404k]
> [...]
> Installing [114/114, time/total: 10:13/10:13]: zbmath-review-template
> [206k]
>
> etc.  Now I can understand it installing LuaTeX, because it is not
> impossible that something in the installation and/or update infrastructure
> requires Lua, but why arabtex, atbegshi, atveryend, awesomebox, babel,
> bibtex, [...],  zbmath-review-template ?  Is this because *XeTeX*
> installs all of these, or is there some other mysterious reason ?  I ask
> not because I am short of disc space but simply because I sought to install
> as little as possible in order to be able to identify whether my normal
> workflow had dependencies other than XeTeX, xdvipdfmx and the plain format
> ...
> --
> *Philip Taylor*
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