
tl-generic (collection-genericrecommended) Including TikZ, pict, etc., but MetaPost and PStricks are separate. MetaPost and Metafont packages tl-pictures (collection-pictures) Packages for XeTeX, the Unicode/OpenType-enabled TeX by Jonathan Kew. Packages for LuaTeX, a Unicode-aware extension of pdfTeX, using Lua as an embedded scripting and extension language. These packages are either mandated by the core LaTeX team, or very widely used and strongly recommended in practice. These files are regarded as basic for any TeX system, covering plain TeX macros, Computer Modern fonts, and configuration for common drivers no LaTeX. However, the installed packages still consume on a ZFS with lzjb compression ~2.2 GB and ~3.2 GB without, and with doc.tex facet set to false ~892 MB (~1.6 GB w/o compression).

This package is a convinience meta package, which pulls in all available texlive IPS packages EXCEPT tl-omega3 (obsolete) and tl-fonts3 (huge, ~550 MB, i.e ~850 MB uncompressed). TexLive is a comprehensive TeX system for many platforms.
