From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:40:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711164058.GC7615@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn2439jp.fsf@elephly.net>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
> > We don't serve substitutes of texlive-texmf. We achieve this by
> > configuring nginx to return "410 Gone" [0].
> >
> > This requires users to build it with '--fallback', and the Guix error
> > message even recommends this, but many users ask about it on IRC.
> >
> > I think we should mark it '#:substitutable? #f' so that, IIUC, Guix will
> > download and build texlive-texmf from the upstream source automatically,
> > without stopping or requiring users to use '--fallback'.
>
> Does this cause substitutes to be disabled for all packages that depend
> on texlive-texmf?
If so, I'd say it's a bug :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-11 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-10 18:51 Too many questions about texlive-texmf Leo Famulari
2016-07-11 7:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-11 8:21 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-11 10:25 ` ng0
2016-07-11 16:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-12 9:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-11 16:40 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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