From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:42:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87bn2439jp.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160710185100.GA4707@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMVri-0001S9-PX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:42:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMVrc-0003su-1R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:42:52 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMVrb-0003sO-Oq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:42:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160710185100.GA4707@jasmine> 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" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > We don't serve substitutes of texlive-texmf. We achieve this by > configuring nginx to return "410 Gone" [0]. > > This requires users to build it with '--fallback', and the Guix error > message even recommends this, but many users ask about it on IRC. > > I think we should mark it '#:substitutable? #f' so that, IIUC, Guix will > download and build texlive-texmf from the upstream source automatically, > without stopping or requiring users to use '--fallback'. Does this cause substitutes to be disabled for all packages that depend on texlive-texmf? ~~ Ricardo