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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:02:33 -0700
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From: david <david AT daku DOT org>
Subject: Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours
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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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