Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2018, 10:09 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > > The issue is that the basic MiKTeX install gives one very little. Not > > enough even to compile the Introduction, largely due to font metric > > files. > > > > > What install choices we have with TeXLive? Bundling 4gb of data is > > > not an > > > option, but there might be small installer which can be conditioned > > > on base > > > installation, without docs and we would be suddenly in the realm of > > > 50-200mb. > > TeXLive provides a variety of "schemes": > https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-250003.2.2
I looked at the page, but it was not clear to me if the "scheme" is configurable by us, ie. launching installer with preselected lyx-friendly scheme is possible. What seems related is the "profile" commandline switch. Pavel