TeX Live images are too large and reinstall fully
Each TeX Live image update reinstalls the full distribution, so pulls are huge and the install step fails often.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 June 2021 · last reported 22 May 2025
What's going wrong
Users of the project's TeX Live Docker images report that they are very large and costly to pull.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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