bug#37013: LyX can not find refstyle.sty

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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I just made some changes to the Lyx package. Can you test it out now to
see if it works as expected?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 04:23:18PM +0000, Xavier Montillet wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> LyX seems to build and run fine without this texlive-union. The texlive stuff is only required when one wants to compile a lyx document to a pdf. I'd therefore expect it to not be a dependency (but maybe a recommended package).
> 
> And removing this texlive-union fixes my problem: Now, if texlive is installed in the profile, it finds it and all its components.
> 
> (Note: I use "./pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --container --share=$XAUTHORITY --share=/tmp/.X11-unix --ad-hoc lyx bash coreutils evince -- env XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY DISPLAY=$DISPLAY lyx2.3" to run lyx so that it reconfigures at startup)
> 
> Xavier
> 
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Xavier,
> > 
> > thanks for the report!
> > 
> > > Since it loaded inputenc, the package just before refstyle, from
> > > /gnu/store/wy5865kh09qak63rpq3v47wnxv2gj1y0-texlive-union-49435/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty,
> > > and /gnu/store/wy5865kh09qak63rpq3v47wnxv2gj1y0-texlive-union-49435/ does not contain refstyle, I
> > > think that the problem is that LyX uses the pdflatex from this
> > > textlive-union instead of the one from the full texlive.
> > 
> > The problem is that Lyx is configured to use the texlive-union that was
> > provided during the build.  It should prefer an optional TeX Live
> > installation that the user provides.  Perhaps we can make it
> > (optionally?) look up the TeX Live tools on PATH before falling back to
> > its texlive-union.
> > 
> > > LyX has a reconfigure option (Tools -> Reconfigure) but it does not
> > > seem to help.
> > 
> > Investigating this might be a good starting point.
> > 
> > --
> > Ricardo
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> 

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