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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:42:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn2439jp.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160710185100.GA4707@jasmine>


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?

~~ Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11  7:42 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 [this message]
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

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