Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hi Phil,
>
>> But there is conflicting advice over what packages should or shouldn't
>> be installed typically some combinaton of:
>> texlive-base, texlive-bin, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latext-font
>>
>> The latest advice seems to be the only texlive-base should be necessary
>> and installing others will cause an issue - with that in mind I
>> attempted the below, but got a new failure.
>
> “texlive-base” is certainly not sufficient for any real world LaTeX
> document.  It contains what LaTeX developers consider the base set of
> files (i.e. texlive-latex-base), texlive-bin (which provides the
> executables), and LaTeX packages from the “required” set.

this is what I use:

https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/vorlesung-verteilte-systeme/browse/guix.scm

    (propagated-inputs
     `(
       ("python-pyzmq" ,python-pyzmq)
       ("python" ,python)
       ("which" ,which)
       ("emacs" ,emacs)
       ("texlive" ,texlive)
       ("graphviz" ,graphviz)
       ("plantuml" ,plantuml)
       ("python-pygments" ,python-pygments)
       ;; for ditaa
       ("openjdk" ,openjdk14)
       ))

Some of these are only necessary for source-blocks.

In addition to that a ton of fonts (all fonts guix has).

Best wishes,
Arne
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