Re: Texlive-texmf

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:20:33AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Or simply:
>>   guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive-texmf)'
>
> That is nifty! I suppose this also uses substitutes if present?

Yes, of course.

> In that case,
> we could even make the texlive-bin package private as well, and a user could
> execute:
>    guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive-bin)'
>    guix download file:/my/path/to/texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz
>    guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive)' --no-substitutes

We don’t want people to have to do that, do we?  :-)

Personally, I don’t want to have to think beyond “guix package -i
texlive”.

Ludo’.