system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__)
That's been the case. I started on a 386sx with 4 megs of ram :).
I already use TexLive. What happened to your / partition? How small was it. Is it only / or is it everything but swap and /home?
I have a 5 gig root partition, includes everything except swap, home, tmp and var.
I can understand that anything like a dvi viewer may want Tex stuff but not KDE in general.
kdvi though, and ISTR that it was brought in with kde. Running aptitude show, it seems that kdvi is part of kdegraphics and it has dependencies on some portions of texlive. Doug.