From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: texlive problems Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 20:16:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20160604181602.GB26817@solar> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9G9P-00079G-Eq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:18:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9G9M-0003y1-7t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:18:23 -0400 Received: from mailrelay7.public.one.com ([91.198.169.215]:17728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9G9L-0003xB-TC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:18:20 -0400 Received: from solar (unknown [92.89.73.211]) by smtpfilter4.public.one.com (Halon Mail Gateway) with ESMTPSA for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 18:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Resent-Message-ID: <20160604181816.GA2163@solar> Resent-To: guix-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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" To: Federico Beffa Hi Fede, On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 06:45:46PM +0200, Federico Beffa wrote: > I've found a couple of problems with our TeXLive package: > * the directory dedicated to local packages is configured to: > /gnu/texmf-local > The standard location is $prefix/texmf-local > You can check it with, e.g., 'kpsewhich --show-path=.sty'. as I understand it, this directory is simply not used in our installation. (So the variable is wrong, but it does not matter.) It is supposed to be used by system administrators installing packages for all users. In our case, I do not quite see which directory we would like to use for that; if Guix is installed on another LFS distribution, we could use /usr/local/texmf or something similar. It cannot be $prefix/whatever, as the store is immutable. Right now, individual users should install tex things into $HOME/.texlive2015. For instance, $HOME/.texlive2015/texmf-var/tex/latex/beamerouterthemexyz.sty. Andreas