Alternative to TeXLive

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I use Lyx for my daily work. Lyx is a user-interface for TeXLive. I noticed that TeXLive is quite heavy because it includes all TeX packages by default. It takes about 4 GB space in my disk, probably larger than the Fedora system. Additionally, the compilation of LaTeX is pretty slow.

I would like to know if there is any plan of creating an alternative to TexLive to reduce its size and improve its compilation time.

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This is why you’re install all TeXLive package in :fedora:,

Let’s see a few:

  • texlive-scheme-full.noarch : full scheme (everything)
  • texlive-scheme-gust.noarch : GUST TeX Live scheme
  • texlive-scheme-basic.noarch : basic scheme (plain and latex)
  • texlive-scheme-small.noarch : small scheme (basic + xetex, metapost, a few languages)
  • texlive-scheme-tetex.noarch : teTeX scheme (more than medium, but nowhere near full)
  • texlive-scheme-medium.noarch : medium scheme (small + more packages and languages)
  • texlive-scheme-context.noarch : ConTeXt scheme
  • texlive-scheme-minimal.noarch : minimal scheme (plain only)

The most important are these:

sudo dnf install texlive-scheme-basic
sudo dnf install texlive-scheme-medium
sudo dnf install texlive-scheme-full

The best pratice is install basic, and next the modules as you need them that will greatly reduce the size.

Regards.,

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