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Re: texlive problems
From: |
Federico Beffa |
Subject: |
Re: texlive problems |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Jun 2016 21:57:19 +0200 |
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Fede,
>
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 06:45:46PM +0200, Federico Beffa wrote:
>> I've found a couple of problems with our TeXLive package:
>> * the directory dedicated to local packages is configured to:
>> /gnu/texmf-local
>> The standard location is $prefix/texmf-local
>> You can check it with, e.g., 'kpsewhich --show-path=.sty'.
>
> as I understand it, this directory is simply not used in our installation.
> (So the variable is wrong, but it does not matter.) It is supposed to be
> used by system administrators installing packages for all users. In our case,
> I do not quite see which directory we would like to use for that; if Guix
> is installed on another LFS distribution, we could use /usr/local/texmf or
> something similar. It cannot be $prefix/whatever, as the store is immutable.
>
> Right now, individual users should install tex things into
> $HOME/.texlive2015. For instance,
> $HOME/.texlive2015/texmf-var/tex/latex/beamerouterthemexyz.sty.
Say package A provides $prefix/texmf-local/tex/generic/my-A.tex and
package B $prefix/texmf-local/tex/generic/my-B.tex. When they are
installed in a profile they get collected into
$guix-profile/texmf-local/tex/generic/.
Local files could then be searched in $guix-profile/texmf-local.
Regards,
Fede