TeX Live: texlive +medium vs. BasicTex

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> Not sure if this is an approriate question for this list or -users,
> but does anyone know how the texlive metaport with the default +medium
> variant compares to the BasicTex package, which is a subset of the
> full Tex Live:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
> 
> "BasicTeX is a subset of TeX Live designed for easy download by users
> with limited download speed. The package is remarkably capable. It
> contains all of the standard tools needed to write TeX documents,
> including TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, MetaFont, dvips, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and
> XeTeX. It contains AMSTeX, the Latin Modern Fonts, the TeX Live
> Manager to add and update packages from TeX Live, and the new
> SyncTeX."

That sounds more like texlive-bin and texlive-basic, so I'd assume the +medium variant will be overkill.
dports is the authority though.

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