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

[Roel Janssen]

Andreas Enge writes:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> > Unfortunately, when building with texlive-minimal, we are missing a
>> > font:
>> >   !pdfTeX error: 
>> > /gnu/store/gnh4kn47mn3m2rlgm9i9xl3wmq2kahia-texlive-minimal-2016
>> >   /bin/pdftex (file cmr9): Font cmr9 at 600 not found
>> >    ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Too bad!  We should take some time to figure out how to split up
>> texlive and make it find modules via some search path.  I’m afraid this
>> might take a long time.
>
> Right now, I would also be happy to make texlive-minimal a little bit bigger.
> The cmr fonts should definitely be included; and I thought I had done so.
> If you know what is missing, we could delete a little bit less. To be honest,
> the texlive-minimal package does not meet my expectations, since there are
> more packages for which it is not sufficient to build the documentation.
> But after an afternoon of building and rebuilding it with more or fewer files
> deleted, I did not have the energy to continue after it worked on the pari-gp
> package with which I made the tests...

I was thinking about packaging the fonts separately, but I haven't at
all looked at whether that is a sane thing to do.  Do you have a
particular list of packages where texlive-minimal fails to be sufficient
to build documentation, or can I generate that list by looking for the
texlive input?

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen