On 10/09/2011 11:53, Hans Hagen wrote:
I did think of the minimals, and indeed that was my first port of call after 'context' failed from my MacTeX installation. However, there does not seem to be any Tikz in the minimals, and I needed that. Setting up Tikz is not so straight-forward.
first-setup --modules=all
the minimals installer remembers what gets installed and when updating modules will be installed as well
if someone only wants luatex the initial install should say --engine=luatex (more minimal, might become default at some point)
the only problem with tikz can be that it depends on some built in functionality (i remember a recent post about such a dependency) but normally the tikz maintainers are quite willing to take care of it; another potential issue can be low level resource management but if the proper interfaces are used this should work now
Hello Hans, Thanks for that: I had not investigated the options for first-setup. -- Joseph Wright