From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: racin@free.fr
Cc: 60820 <60820@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#60820] [PATCH] Add 'totpages' latex package.
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:02:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rhol59o.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193870067.201946967.1674668566774.JavaMail.zimbra@free.fr> (racin@free.fr's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:42:46 +0100 (CET)")
Hello,
racin@free.fr writes:
>> Let's assume for a second Guix provides all TeX Live packages
>> piece-wise. The idea is that if someone installs all the packages, they
>> would get the whole TeX Live distribution, including the sources, i.e.,
>> the "texlive" package.
>
> But if someone need the source, my understanding is that one can just use guix build -S
> or some other command to retrieve them.
> So I don't see the interest of having them too in the compiled output, as they are not useful for
> normal usage of the package; it seems to take up space for no reason.
I don't know if the reason is strong enough, but I gave you one above.
In any case, the main nit here is that we try to generate files from
source, which "#trivial? #t" prevents.
> Sorry to bother you with my questions, as I am new to guix.
No problem!
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-14 22:36 [bug#60820] [PATCH] Add 'totpages' latex package Matthieu Lemerre
2023-01-15 18:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2023-01-23 21:55 ` racin
2023-01-24 13:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2023-01-24 22:25 ` racin
2023-01-25 16:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2023-01-25 17:42 ` racin
2023-01-27 9:02 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2023-04-18 13:33 ` bug#60820: " Nicolas Goaziou
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