> Another "pain point" is that the images are much bigger (997MB > compared to 823MB with Ubuntu 18.04).
Ouch. > I had a quick look and most if it seems to come from TexLive. If > somebody has ideas how to "install less" or otherwise reduce the > size, I would welcome contributions. Here is a comparison of the installed sizes of the TeXLive packages (I took the info from https://packages.ubuntu.com). package bionic (18.04) focal (20.04) ------------------------- -------------- ------------- texlive-base 52MB 73MB texlive-binaries 36MB 36MB texlive-fonts-recommended 18MB 15MB texlive-font-utils 4MB 4MB texlive-lang-cyrillic 40MB 40MB texlive-metapost 2MB 3MB texlive-plain-generic 53MB 56MB texinfo 7MB 11MB texi2html 2MB 2MB ------- ------- 214MB 240MB This doesn't explain the difference of 160MB... I don't have enough time to do more size comparisons, sorry. > As a second step, I would like to bump a number of requirements to > versions available in Ubuntu 18.04. [...] +1 > What I would like to keep are the versions of FontForge, where we > are bound by CentOS 7, and Ghostscript, because it had a licensing > change to AGPL and I think it would be good the keep the ability to > run with a GPL-only version. The gs version coming with 20.04 (9.50) should also guarantee small PDF files of the documentation... Werner
