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bug#26353: TeX Live
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ng0 |
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bug#26353: TeX Live |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:17:15 +0000 |
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Hi Danny!
> >>
> >> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> >>
> >>> 70 GiB non-home root partition seems also be too small for it all. I have
> >>> to do guix gc quite often - I'll have to repartition somewhen.
> >>>
> >>> texlive finally downloaded correctly *shrugs*. Texlive is really getting
> >>> on my nerves - isn't it possible to modularize it more? Also, one
> >>> shouldn't require 2 GiB for a word processor and DTP. *mumble mumble*
> >>
> >> TeX Live is getting on everybody’s nerves. :-)
> >>
> >> There are ways to turn it into a zillion packages from CTAN, which is
> >> what Nixpkgs did. Ricardo (I think?) had some thoughts as to how to
> >> achieve this and I would really like to see it happen.
> >
> > That would be great. I miss this snippet from my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix:
> >
> > myTex = pkgs.texlive.combine {
> > inherit (texlive) scheme-small marginnote sectsty cm-super enumitem
> > xifthen ifmtarg unicode-math filehook collection-fontsrecommended
> > collection-fontsextra libertine gentium-tug ucharcat;
> > };
>
> Yeah, I agree. Hopefully a profile hook could do what
> pkgs.texlive.combine does, which would make it more convenient. Then we
> also need a CTAN importer…
>
> Ludo’.
>
>
>
Importers for the importer deity!
But seriously, whoever manages to split Texlive up gets a free non-alcoholic
drink if I should ever meet the person at a conference or somewhere else!
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ng0
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