Re: tlc3 scheme -> scheme-small?

Hi Karl,

On Fri, 2026-01-23 at 14:19 -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
> reducing the installed size to 230MB.

> That is only a tiny bit larger than the existing scheme-small for the
> Mac "BasicTeX" (223MB),

> The total size would then be increased to ~313MB

How big will this new scheme be? Because if it's 223MB->230MB, then that
seems like an obvious yes to me, since 7MB is almost trivial; if it's
223MB->313MB, then I'm inclined to say no, since this would increase the
install size by almost 50%, which seems rather significant to me.

> My first reaction is that instead of making users pick between two
> similar sets of packages (on what basis?), we could add the tlc3
> packages to s-small [...] but the benefit of
> not creating yet another scheme outweighs that in my mind.

Yes, I agree that _if_ we add these packages to a scheme, it would make
the most sense to add them to the existing scheme-small rather than
creating a new scheme.

As always, these are just my opinions, so feel free to ignore :)

Thanks,
-- Max