From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Texlive-texmf Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20160302100844.GA3539@solar> References: <20160225201935.GA24416@solar> <87io1bys72.fsf@gnu.org> <20160228083212.GA16394@solar> <87a8mhi5pc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ab3i9-0005NA-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:08:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ab3i5-0003D6-Mh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:08:52 -0500 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:59789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ab3i5-0003Cn-A8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:08:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8mhi5pc.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We don’t want people to have to do that, do we? :-) > Personally, I don’t want to have to think beyond “guix package -i > texlive”. It is only about choice, you can always just install texlive if you are ready to download gigabytes of data! Personally, I like to just download texlive-bin and to build texlive locally from a tarball stored locally on my hard disk, to avoid downloading all the data. This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake, since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion. So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days. Users are advised to not install either texlive-bin or texlive-texmf into their profile; they will not work correctly together. Either install texlive to get the full experience, or try out texlive-minimal (which ships neither the documentation nor the fonts except for Computer Modern, and also breaks some of the more exotic tex frontends). Andreas