Re: [MiKTeX] Basic vs. complete install

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Freitag, 11. August 2006 um 16:09 schrieb Rolf Hermann:

> Dear users,

> I just used the Net Installer to install the complete version of the MikTeX
> distribution. And I wonder why it is recommended to do only the basic
> installation and get missing packages on the fly.

> For me it is always a pleasure to browse all the available packages with
> their documentations to discover useful features I haven't known before. If I
> only had the basic installation on my disk, I couldn't hit upon anything
> new---except with the help of books or on some web sites.

> What do you think about encouraging people to install the complete version
> and to browse the available packages?

I don't have a flatrate and so the size of the download matters. Also
as some post here have shown (and I had experienced in previous
versions), the complete installation can easily fail: the connection
can break or a package can be corrupted. It is a pain to come back
only to find you have to restart the whole thing. Also quite a lot
people already have a full install from 2.4. It is a waste of
bandwidth and time to get everything again.


If you really want everything, you can do the basic install, get your
system running and then start the package manager to get all other
packages in suitable pieces.



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer
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