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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Texlive
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj7c3mtd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150314215429.GA1578@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:54:29 +0100")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> the attached patch does what its commit message says. It is the fruit of many
> trials and discussions with Ludovic. The tricky thing was to link to the
> kpsewhich binary in texlive-bin, but to make it take its configuration file
> texmf.cnf from texlive-data. I ended up wrapping all binaries and providing
> them with the suitable value of TEXMFCNF.

I don’t want to spoil the party ;-), but could it be that there are
programs outside of TeX Live that use libkpathsea & co.?

> The real goal of the patch is to make it easy to create a second package
> texlive-small in a second step. This package shall inherit from texlive,
> but have as input texlive-texmf-small, which is created as texlive-texmf,
> but after deleting a big chunk of data; I would say, all the documentation
> and most of the fonts. Such a smaller package could be a native input for
> packages creating their documentation from a latex source, for instance.

That would be nice.

Thanks for your hard work on this!

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-16 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-14 21:54 Texlive Andreas Enge
2015-03-14 23:43 ` Texlive Daniel Pimentel
2015-03-15 15:33 ` Texlive Mark H Weaver
2015-03-15 19:14   ` Texlive Andreas Enge
2015-03-16 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-03-16 18:37   ` Texlive Andreas Enge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-15  9:50 Texlive Federico Beffa
2015-03-15 10:48 ` Texlive Andreas Enge
2015-03-15 11:16   ` Texlive Federico Beffa
2015-03-16 18:54     ` Texlive Andreas Enge
2015-03-16 16:51 ` Texlive Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-23 11:06   ` Texlive Federico Beffa
2015-03-25 21:17     ` Texlive Ludovic Courtès

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