arihi :bocchi_arch: :naima_padoru: :blobcatchristmastree: :ibrs2: :ene: on Nostr: if you install the whole texlive group from arch repos it comes out to 2.8 gigabytes, ...

if you install the whole texlive group from arch repos it comes out to 2.8 gigabytes, while the zstd-compressed downloads are roughly 1 gigabyte. among the packages there's some that compress quite well and some that don't but it averages out to a 0.37 compression ratio.