From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to keep biber working
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:32:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blu9kcnk.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0ep6hnh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says
>> should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite
>> another to generate them all from their respective sources.
>
> Nix separates them all, it provides the 2000+ packages.
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.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 21:32 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 [this message]
2019-10-22 8:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-22 9:24 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-22 9:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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