Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-ess.

[Ben Woodcroft]

Hi.

On 05/07/16 20:56, Roel Janssen wrote:
> Dear Guix,
>
> I have a question about the following patch to add emacs-ess.

Thanks, I was also making a half-hearted attempt at this.

> By default, the build files rely upon a LaTeX distribution to be
> installed to generate a PDF from its Texinfo documentation.
>
> I know that texlive is quite a heavy package, so should I separate the
> output of this package in "out" and "doc", and substitute/patch the
> involved Makefiles?

Have you tried texlive-minimal ?

> You can find the patch below.

I didn't find the time to test the patch, but looks fine to me on the 
face of it. I had it in statistics.scm but I think emacs.scm is fine too.

ben