From 4800a5195708c66a015725a3ff41795f55de8968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: claude <claude@alocoq.fr>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 21:52:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use a curated TeX Live set instead of near-full to speed up
 builds
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The previous install expanded texlive-full (minus -doc/-lang-), pulling in
essentially every CTAN package plus inkscape's large GTK GUI tree — ~20 min
and several GB. Replace it with a curated set of meta-packages that covers
the vast majority of documents: latex base/recommended/extra, recommended
fonts, plain-generic, science (math/physics), xetex, luatex, bibtex-extra,
extra-utils (texcount), plus latexmk/biber/chktex/pygments.

Smaller and faster to build. Documents needing an omitted package can have
the relevant texlive-* collection added back. Drops inkscape (only used for
auto SVG->PDF conversion) to avoid its heavy GUI dependency chain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 server-ce/Dockerfile-base | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server-ce/Dockerfile-base b/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
index 7fa917713a..1ab78d93cd 100644
--- a/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
+++ b/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
@@ -72,21 +72,31 @@ RUN mkdir -p /opt/quarto-extensions \
 # Install TeX Live (for compiling .tex projects with latexmk)
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Verso compiles .qmd with Quarto and .tex with latexmk; both engines live
-# side by side. We install (almost) all of texlive-full, excluding the -doc
-# and -lang- packages to keep the download from being needlessly huge while
-# still providing a complete LaTeX toolchain (latexmk, xetex, lualatex,
-# biber, texcount, chktex, synctex, etc.).
+# side by side. Rather than (almost) all of texlive-full — which pulls in
+# every CTAN package and takes ~20 min to build — we install a curated set
+# of meta-packages covering the vast majority of real documents: the latex
+# base/recommended/extra collections, recommended fonts, science/math
+# packages, both alternative engines (xetex, luatex), and bibliography
+# tooling. This is a few GB smaller and noticeably faster to build.
+#
+# If a document needs a package not included here, add the relevant
+# texlive-* collection below (e.g. texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-publishers,
+# texlive-humanities) and rebuild. We deliberately omit inkscape, whose GTK
+# GUI dependency tree is large and only needed for auto SVG->PDF conversion.
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 RUN apt-get update \
-&&  apt-cache depends texlive-full \
-      | grep "Depends: " \
-      | grep -v -- "-doc" \
-      | grep -v -- "-lang-" \
-      | sed 's/Depends: //' \
-      | xargs apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
 &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-      texlive-xetex texlive-luatex texlive-bibtex-extra biber \
-      texlive-extra-utils latexmk chktex fontconfig inkscape python3-pygments \
+      texlive-latex-base \
+      texlive-latex-recommended \
+      texlive-latex-extra \
+      texlive-fonts-recommended \
+      texlive-plain-generic \
+      texlive-science \
+      texlive-xetex \
+      texlive-luatex \
+      texlive-bibtex-extra \
+      texlive-extra-utils \
+      latexmk biber chktex fontconfig python3-pygments \
 &&  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*