From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#27217: texlive is too big Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 13:58:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87fu2chu02.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87tw3w7v1m.fsf@elephly.net> <87po1g2g43.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNGnp-0000LD-E3 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 07:59:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNGnm-00082A-D4 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 07:59:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNGnm-00081W-3z for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 07:59:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNGnl-0005Ig-PS for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 07:59:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <87po1g2g43.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Peter Neidhardt Cc: 27217@debbugs.gnu.org Peter Neidhardt writes: > What's the current status on this? No progress yet. I=E2=80=99ve been meaning to work on this, but it=E2=80= =99s pretty tedious and demands concentration, which is a quality I haven=E2=80=99t bee= n able to maintain. For most *packages* needing a subset of TeX live we can use =E2=80=9Ctexlive-union=E2=80=9D as an input instead. For user profiles, = =E2=80=9Ctexlive-union=E2=80=9D is not the right tool. > What's the intended TeXlive installation process then? Currently, the recommended way to get TeX live is to install the huge =E2=80=9Ctexlive=E2=80=9D package. =E2=80=9Ctexlive-union=E2=80=9D wa= s only meant to be used as an input in packages that require a subset of TeX live. It cannot yet be used in a profile. > Let me know if I there is anything I can help with. We need a profile hook that builds the configuration file and sets environment variables whenever a texlive-* package is contained in a profile. The behaviour would be similar to =E2=80=9Ctexlive-union=E2=80=9D= . -- Ricardo