Most of the dependency weight is due to -doc packages. For example, `texlive-latex-extra-doc` is a 325MiB download. Here's a (partial) listing of the dependenc

Most of the dependency weight is due to -doc packages. For example, `texlive-latex-extra-doc` is a 325MiB download. Here's a (partial) listing of the dependencies that were automatically selected sorted by download size†: https://www.dropbox.com/s/950vm93v1ncna6x/lyx_synaptic.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/950vm93v1ncna6x/lyx_synaptic.png?d... So you can avoid a lot of your disk space usage by excluding‡ the -doc packages. †: I haven't figured out how to get Synaptic to show estimations of unpacked sizes on a per-package basis ‡: In aptitude, `- .*-doc` I think?