I have noticed that the postinstall processing of "texlive" seems to
go on for hours, even on a reasonably powerful computer (Intel i7,
64bit, 2.5G memory running Windows 7 in VirtualBox (host Centos6)
with 5 cores). I am running a fresh install using Cygwin Setup
1.7.11-1 on an otherwise empty system. This delay was not true in
1.7.9; it ran to completion in reasonable time.
For the past few days, I've actually aborted the install several
times because I thought it was hung. By "forever" I mean 6+ hours of
solid compute with occasional disk activity as it runs through
"texlive-collection-lang-*" language by language. Had I not let it
run overnight, I don't think I would have ever concluded that it
would ever finish. No other VM is active, and the underlying Linux
is quiet too.
Is this really necessary? I could of course omit TeX, but that's not
a good solution.
David
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