From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Texlive Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:54:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87zj7c3mtd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150314215429.GA1578@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYHd-0001oH-1A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:54:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYHY-0000me-RV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:54:28 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYHY-0000mY-O8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:54:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150314215429.GA1578@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:54:29 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge 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 fi= le > texmf.cnf from texlive-data. I ended up wrapping all binaries and providi= ng > them with the suitable value of TEXMFCNF. I don=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99.