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The great majority of the space is documentation, source, and fonts; see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119763/339 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119763/339 .
by jimhefferon 12y ago
The great majority of the space is documentation, source, and fonts; see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119763/339 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119763/339 .
At the 2014 TeX conference one speaker gave out a MacTeX distributions (that's based on TeX Live) on a 8GB USB stick. Personally I wonder whether putting a lot of effort into creating stripped-down versions is worthwhile.
- redacted 12y agoUnless things have changed recently, MacTex also provided a minimal distribution which was only a couple hundred MB. I used it for my thesis when I was using a space-constrained SSD. You can use tlmgr (texlive manager) to install packages as needed.