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 17:51:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8zc51hv.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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]:52562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYFH-0007Yw-EV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:52:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYFD-0008Qm-DF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:52:03 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXYFD-0008Qi-AR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:51:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:50:05 +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: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Federico Beffa skribis: > It would be nice to have an incremental strategy with a hierarchy, say > texlive-base, texlive-common, texlive-extra, texlive-all, where each > package is non-overlapping with other ones. Then a new functionality to > aggregate packages into a new package where you specify which packages > to include. Something like > > guix package --aggregate texlive --with texlive-base texlive-common ... > > This would be useful for packages with plug-ins, to bundle compilers with > a selection of libraries, ... I think the problem here is really that TeX Live is monolithic, and I don=E2=80=99t think that should be addressed by the packaging tools themsel= ves. My 2=C2=A2, Ludo=E2=80=99.