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

[David Carlisle]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 16:03, Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
wrote:

> David Carlisle wrote:
>
>
> 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
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>
> 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
>
> Fair enough, David, but collection "xetex" has only 43 or so dependencies
> — have you any idea what causes the other 70 or so items to be installed ?
>

well I didn't check the details but this is a recursive relation, each of
those 40 may have their own dependencies.
Perhaps it's all a secret plot to encourage you to use latex.

David





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