Distributing TeX and Friends - methods, pitfalls, advise

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An overview of TeX Live's structure and its key configuration and support files, describing the size and composition of the distribution (≈2GB, ~2000 packages) and how it has become the dominant TeX distribution across Unix, macOS (MacTeX) and increasingly Windows. Covers practical challenges of integrating TeX Live into Linux/Unix distributions—post-installation tasks, common packaging mistakes—and gives packaging experience-based advice and best-practice examples aimed at distributors (Debian and others) who redistribute TeX Live.

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