Re: removing teTeX packages after 2016Q3

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:38:52PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> As such, I've viewed "print/teTeX" as an effective meta-package that
> continued to install a fairly complete (possibly overkill?) TeX system
> from mostly texlive components.
> 
> Last I looked, I didn't see any equivalent meta-package for "texlive".
> Will there be one?  Otherwise, "texlive" seems to be completely "a la
> carte" and I haven't tried wading through it to figure out the pieces
> necessary for me. 

There are lots of texlive meta packages:

texlive-collection-basic
texlive-collection-basic-doc
texlive-collection-bibtexextra
texlive-collection-binextra
texlive-collection-context
texlive-collection-fontsextra
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc
texlive-collection-fontutils
texlive-collection-formatsextra
texlive-collection-games
texlive-collection-genericextra
texlive-collection-genericrecommended
texlive-collection-genericrecommended-doc
texlive-collection-htmlxml
texlive-collection-langafrican
texlive-collection-langarabic
texlive-collection-langchinese
texlive-collection-langcjk
texlive-collection-langcyrillic
texlive-collection-langczechslovak
texlive-collection-langenglish
texlive-collection-langeuropean
texlive-collection-langfrench
texlive-collection-langgerman
texlive-collection-langgreek
texlive-collection-langindic
texlive-collection-langitalian
texlive-collection-langjapanese
texlive-collection-langkorean
texlive-collection-langother
texlive-collection-langpolish
texlive-collection-langportuguese
texlive-collection-langspanish
texlive-collection-latex
texlive-collection-latex-doc
texlive-collection-latexextra
texlive-collection-latexrecommended
texlive-collection-luatex
texlive-collection-mathextra
texlive-collection-metapost
texlive-collection-music
texlive-collection-omega
texlive-collection-pictures
texlive-collection-plainextra
texlive-collection-pstricks
texlive-collection-publishers
texlive-collection-science
texlive-collection-xetex

Choose the ones that best match your use case :)

If you think it useful, we can add a meta package that depends on all
meta packages, that would be the equivalent to what the teTeX meta
package is.
 Thomas