From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 27217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:20:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sig90eh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw3w7v1m.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:03:49 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> What’s missing?
>
> Currently, one needs to set a lot of environment variables to use these
> separate packages. For “fastcap” I needed to set “DVIPSHEADERS” (to
> find “tex.pro”), “TFMFONTS” (for compiled metafont files), “TEXFORMATS”
> (for the compiled “latex.fmt”), and “TEXINPUTS” (for all directories
> containing tex source files). Setting these variables manually is
> really tedious.
>
> How can we set them automatically? A simple idea is to provide a
> procedure “texlive-union” that takes texlive packages and produces a
> wrapped variant of the tools in “texlive-bin” that run inside an
> environment where these variables are set.
After reading, it is not clear to me why having all the environment
variables set in “~/.guix-profile/etc/profile” is not good enough, or
not possible?
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Mathieu Lirzin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-23 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-03 19:03 bug#27217: texlive is too big Ricardo Wurmus
2017-11-23 20:51 ` bug#27217: break up TeXlive for guix Matt Wette
2018-01-23 13:20 ` Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2018-05-28 12:02 ` bug#27217: texlive is too big Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 11:07 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-05-28 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-28 12:53 ` Peter Neidhardt
2018-12-15 14:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-10 9:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 12:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 16:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 16:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 17:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 18:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 18:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-10 19:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 11:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-10 12:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-13 12:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 9:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17 9:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 10:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-17 10:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-17 11:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-02 14:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-03 14:32 ` Jelle Licht
2019-03-05 8:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-16 12:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-18 8:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-19 21:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-20 7:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-22 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-17 10:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-15 15:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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