Re: Texlive

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> It would be nice to have an incremental strategy with a hierarchy, say
> texlive-base, texlive-common, texlive-extra, texlive-all, where each
> package is non-overlapping with other ones. Then a new functionality to
> aggregate packages into a new package where you specify which packages
> to include. Something like
>
> guix package --aggregate texlive --with texlive-base texlive-common ...
>
> This would be useful for packages with plug-ins, to bundle compilers with
> a selection of libraries, ...

I think the problem here is really that TeX Live is monolithic, and I
don’t think that should be addressed by the packaging tools themselves.

My 2¢,
Ludo’.