From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to keep biber working
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:24:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022092407.GC1831@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftjl8aut.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:04:26AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> > This does not contradict what I wrote. *Building* the packages differs
> > from just copying the generated files to their expected locations. I
> > doubt Nix actually generates all these files from source.
>
> Indeed. We discussed this some time back: we can come up with a build
> system / importer that tries to generate the file the best it can, and
> if it fails to produce the expected output, we can fallback on copying
> the SVN files. Not ideal, but better than what we have now ;)
>
TeX is like black magic to me. The only thing I have to add is that
Debian "compiles" (or however it works) as a post-install hook, and they
have a DD who also works on TeX itself. However, as a binary
distribution, they have no incentive to break it up into smaller pieces.
Gentoo might be better with that, but I have no idea.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 14:09 How to keep biber working Jelle Licht
2019-10-21 15:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 15:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 17:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 17:30 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 19:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-21 19:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-21 21:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-22 8:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-22 9:24 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2019-10-22 9:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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