From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJMDe-00036r-Re for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:53:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJMDe-00050b-1E for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:53:02 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJMDd-00050X-UC for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:53:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dJMDd-00078L-KE for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:53:01 -0400 Subject: bug#27296: [PATCH 33/35] gnu: Add texlive-union. Resent-Message-ID: References: <20170609104559.17416-1-rekado@elephly.net> <20170609104559.17416-33-rekado@elephly.net> <87fuf9jjj5.fsf@gnu.org> <87shj9ci9k.fsf@elephly.net> <87r2yti4af.fsf@gnu.org> From: Ricardo Wurmus In-reply-to: <87r2yti4af.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:51:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2ytcg6q.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 27296@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > […] >> “texlive-union” is primarily for the benefit of package definitions that >> currently use “texlive” as an input, as the alternative is for these >> packages to set a lot of environment variables in build phases. I >> reduced the number of variables by providing texmf.cnf, but at the very >> least packages would have to set TEXMFCNF and provide their own >> texmf.cnf to make the texlive binaries find packages, fonts, >> configurations, etc. > > I see, that makes sense! So the ‘texmf.cnf’ file created by > ‘texlive-union’ is automatically found, right? All executables in the texlive-union are wrapped with TEXMFCNF (and TEXMF) so that they will use the correct texmf.cnf. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net