From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:40:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20160711164058.GC7615@jasmine> References: <20160710185100.GA4707@jasmine> <87bn2439jp.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMeGg-0000Du-Dy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:41:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMeGd-00007s-5v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:41:14 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:36555) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMeGa-00006G-Ol for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:41:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bn2439jp.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Leo Famulari 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 :)