John Nietzsche wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> i am trying to get texlive installed in my computer. Inside the directory i saw:
>
> robigo# pwd;ls -l
> /usr/ports/print/texlive
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 7 20:59 CVS
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 173 Nov 2 2007 Makefile
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 388 Sep 7 2007 Makefile.inc
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:03 base
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Nov 2 2007 texmf-docs
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:01 texmf-full
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jul 24 15:02 texmf-minimal
> robigo#
>
>
> I would like to install texmf-full and base. But i realized that base
> depends on texmf-minimal.
> I am obligated to install texmf-mininall and ended up with the
> following packages:
>
Yes, because of dependences. Texmf-full means, as the name is
suggesting, EVERYTHING.
> base, texmf-full and texmf-minimal and base
>
> What is the diference between texmf-full and textmf-minimal?
>
>
If you are planing to write documents is English most likely you do not
need texmf-full unless you have a very special needs. If plan to you use
Cyrillic, Chinese, or Arabic you definitely need
texmf-full even for a very simple document.
Texmf-full contains far more macros and special purpose TeX packages
than texmf-base.
Best,
Predrag
> Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
>
> best regards.
