Re: Texlive-texmf

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 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”.
>
> It is only about choice, you can always just install texlive if you are
> ready to download gigabytes of data!
>
> Personally, I like to just download texlive-bin and to build texlive locally
> from a tarball stored locally on my hard disk, to avoid downloading all the
> data.

I understand, but this is hack to work around “broken packaging” on our
side (“broken” in the sense that it sucks in comparison to what, say,
Debian provides), not a great recipe that we want users to care about.

> This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the
> internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake,
> since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion.
>
> So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days.

OK.

Ludo’.