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diff --git a/Master/install-tl b/Master/install-tl index d11d5c43b46..c37f1c72008 100755 --- a/Master/install-tl +++ b/Master/install-tl @@ -1726,15 +1726,35 @@ install-tl.bat [OPTION]... =head1 DESCRIPTION The TeX Live installer works across all supported platforms and allows -to install TeX Live from various media, including the network. +to install TeX Live from various media, including the network. For +information on initially downloading TeX Live, see +L<http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html>. -Post-installation configuration, packages updates, and more, are now -available through B<tlmgr>(1), the TeX Live Manager +The basic idea of TeX Live installation is to choose one of the +top-level I<schemes>, each of which is defined as a different set of +I<collections> and I<packages>, where a collection is a set of packages, +and a package is what contains actual files. + +Within the installer, you can choose a scheme, and further customize the +set of collections to install, but not the set of the packages. To do +that, remove the undesired packages after installation with C<tlmgr> +(see reference below). + +The default is C<scheme-full>, to install everything, and this is highly +recommended unless your disk space is severely limited. + +=head1 REFERENCES + +Post-installation configuration, packages updates, and more, are handled +through B<tlmgr>(1), the TeX Live Manager (L<http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html>). The most up-to-date version of this documentation is on the Internet at L<http://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html>. +For the full documentation of TeX Live, see +L<http://tug.org/texlive/doc>. + =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 |