Why is Latex so big?

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Published on 2010-04-10T00:51:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 0:53 UTC
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On windows, MikTex comes in a DVD. It's several times bigger than a typical Linux distribution. This makes it impossible to carry Latex on a memory stick like I do with many other useful software.

Why is it so big? I thought it was just a language or system, but I've never seen any programming language with gigabytes of libraries.

It's just that there's a bad feeling when your Latex distribution takes up four gigabytes of space when you expect it to be more of, say, 200mb.

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