# Description of Racket Distribution for download and package repo pages?

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/description-of-racket-distribution-for-download-and-package-repo-pages/1608>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 2, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/description-of-racket-distribution-for-download-and-package-repo-pages/1608 "2023-01-02T17:44:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 10

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![soegaard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/soegaard/32/19_2.png) [@soegaard](https://racket.discourse.group/u/soegaard)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/description-of-racket-distribution-for-download-and-package-repo-pages/1608/10 "2023-01-05T15:25:25Z")

</div>

For context:

> [@Minimal-racket is very slow before installing compiler-lib](https://racket.discourse.group/t/minimal-racket-is-very-slow-before-installing-compiler-lib/967/20):
>
> This is what I was expecting (just another lesson in the dangers of writing enormous paths by hand. This is also right. I definitely agree that making this work is important to giving a good first impression! I used Homebrew's minimal Racket myself for several Racket release cycles when I was relatively new to Racket. Adding an explicit raco setup step will definitely avoid the immediate problem, but I think it may be doing so by producing a duplicate set of .zo files. I'll try to descri…

---

_[View the full topic](https://racket.discourse.group/t/description-of-racket-distribution-for-download-and-package-repo-pages/1608)._