diff --git a/migrations/1794082157.sh b/migrations/1794082157.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6cbfd70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/1794082157.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# CoreDesktop installed the whole texlive group (22 packages, about 3 GB),
+# though nothing in it uses LaTeX. Remove it once. A package from the group
+# that something else still needs stays, marked as a dependency, to go with
+# that as an orphan.
+mapfile -t pkgs < <(pacman -Qgq texlive 2> /dev/null)
+(( ${#pkgs[@]} )) || exit 0
+
+sudo pacman -D --asdeps "${pkgs[@]}" > /dev/null || exit
+
+# The ones nothing needs now (-tt counts packages only optionally needed).
+# Removing them with -s takes the rest of the group, and the dependencies it
+# pulled in, unless something else needs them.
+mapfile -t unneeded < <(comm -12 <(printf '%s\n' "${pkgs[@]}" | sort) \
+  <(pacman -Qqdtt | sort))
+(( ${#unneeded[@]} )) || exit 0
+
+echo "Removing texlive..."
+sudo pacman -Rns --noconfirm "${unneeded[@]}"
diff --git a/packages.conf b/packages.conf
index 591be65..077c18f 100644
--- a/packages.conf
+++ b/packages.conf
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ DEV_TOOLS=(
   python-pygments
   rust
   starship
-  texlive
   tmux
   # nvim-treesitter builds its language parsers with the tree-sitter command
   tree-sitter-cli