On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:56:17PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote: > So, I guess grafting takes a very long time. For this package it is > not substantially faster than building the package itself. :-(
The speciality of texlive is that it is relatively easy to build - some CPU time for the binaries. Then the data is essentially only unpacked and some of the binaries are run on them, but the latter takes only minutes. So I would always recommend to (re-)build the package locally. Andreas