Hi Ricardo,

> The correct solution to this problem would be to add a little build
> cycle: build a bootstrap version of pdflatex (and the other formats) so
> that we can build babel; then rebuild pdflatex (and all the other
> formats, and everything that goes into texlive-latex-base) in an
> environment where babel exists.
indeed, adding this package variation to the manifest fixed the issue for me:

---snip---
(define-public texlive-latex-base-fixed
  (package
    (inherit texlive-latex-base)
    (name "texlive-latex-base-fixed")
    (propagated-inputs (modify-inputs (package-propagated-inputs texlive-latex-base)
                                      (append texlive-babel)))))
---snap---

Looking at `guix refresh -l texlive-latex-base` a change like that would
be a world rebuild though. I tried adding something similar to
Guix’ tree, but there’s a loop somewhere I can’t figure out
(see attached patch). I’m guessing through texlive-build-system’s
#:texlive-latex-base.

Cheers,
Lars