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by m-r-a-m 4746 days ago
It does sound insane to have so many packages, but it also follows Fedora's policy of staying as close to upstream as possible. The entire package building process is automated since TeX Live provides the packaging metadata with the source.

They also include the meta packages [1] so you don't have to install every package individually if disk space is not an issue.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive#Benefit_to_F...