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Re: Problem with texlive-default-updmap.cfg
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zimoun |
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Re: Problem with texlive-default-updmap.cfg |
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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:01:18 +0100 |
Hi,
On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 18:50, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> > Not sure I understand the context well enough, but yes,
> > ‘texlive-font-maps’ in (guix profiles) uses packages from the host Guix,
> > not from an inferior (it cannot know that inferiors are being used).
> >
> > Does that lead it to build incorrect font maps or things like that?
>
> Worse: there’s a mismatch between what one Guix wants and what the other
> offers. Apparently the profile hook from the newer Guix is used, but
> the look up of texlive-default-updmap.cfg in (gnu packages tex) happens
> in the older Guix — which doesn’t *have* that package — and thus fails.
I do not understand all the machinery so it is probably irrelevant.
Is it not related to the recent improvements of inferiors? And the
recent texlive-default-updmap.cfg is just what spots out the flaw.
Cheers,
simon