LaTeX by its nature is a 4GB+ “Distro” of interdependent modules so LiveTex TinyTex MiKTeX and W32TeX have package managers.
texlive2022-20220321.iso 2022-03-21 22:59 4.3G
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For MiKTeX its easy to command line or GUI
MiKTeX Remove [--package-id-file file] package-id...
e.g. Remove installed MiKTeX packages. see https://docs.miktex.org/manual/miktex-packages.html However best to use the GUI admin to resolve some inter dependency.
“Just enough TeX”
MiKTeX supports the notion of a scalable TeX system: users install just the TeX packages they need for their authoring tasks.
Date: 7/18/2022 File name: basic-miktex-22.7-x64.exe Size: 132.71 MB
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your minimal TeX system
From now on, whenever a package is required which hasn’t been installed yet, the package installer comes into play.
Due to the nature of “on the fly” installation setting it can appear less stable than the full ProTex variant. But if set correctly any removed essentials should be auto renewed when necessary.
Generally MiKTeX is the best distro suite for western windows users, just as W(in)32Tex is more suited to eastern windows users.
TinyTex is best for R users and is modeled on MiKTeX
I appreciate one nice feature of MiKTeX on Windows (which seems to be cross-platform now): automatically installing missing LaTeX packages. I think this is very helpful, so I borrowed this feature to the R package tinytex,
TinyTeX-v2022.08.zip 226 MB
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solved Uninstalling unwanted MiKTeX packages [closed]