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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 27296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27296: [PATCH 33/35] gnu: Add texlive-union.
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:12:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2yti4af.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shj9ci9k.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:06:47 +0200")

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-union): New procedure.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +(define-public texlive-union (lambda* (#:optional (packages '()))
>>> +  "Return 'texlive-union' package which is a union of PACKAGES and the
>>> +standard LaTeX packages."
>>> +  (let ((default-packages
>>> +          (list texlive-bin
>>> +                texlive-dvips
>>> +                texlive-fonts-cm
>>
>> (Indentation is unusual here.)
>>
>> Does ‘texlive-union’ become the user interface to install LaTeX, along
>> with ‘texlive-tiny’ and maybe a ‘texlive-full’ meta-package?
>>
>> Do you think this could be turned into a profile hook, somehow, such
>> that users who install a bunch of ‘texlive-*’ packages would immediately
>> get something that works without having to write Scheme code that calls
>> ‘texlive-union’?
>
> “texlive-union” is primarily for the benefit of package definitions that
> currently use “texlive” as an input, as the alternative is for these
> packages to set a lot of environment variables in build phases.  I
> reduced the number of variables by providing texmf.cnf, but at the very
> least packages would have to set TEXMFCNF and provide their own
> texmf.cnf to make the texlive binaries find packages, fonts,
> configurations, etc.

I see, that makes sense!  So the ‘texmf.cnf’ file created by
‘texlive-union’ is automatically found, right?

> A profile hook would be the best way to handle the installation of
> packages into profiles.  I just haven’t written it yet :)

Fair enough, no problem!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-09 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-09 10:42 bug#27296: Modular Texlive Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45 ` bug#27296: [PATCH 01/35] guix: Add download-svn-to-store Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 02/35] guix: Add common TeX and LaTeX licenses Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 14:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-10  2:15       ` Arun Isaac
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 03/35] gnu: Add texlive-dvips Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 04/35] gnu: Add texlive-generic-unicode-data Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 05/35] gnu: Add texlive-generic-dehyph-exptl Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 06/35] gnu: Add texlive-generic-tex-ini-files Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 07/35] gnu: Add texlive-generic-hyph-utf8 Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 08/35] gnu: Add texlive-metafont-base Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 09/35] gnu: Add texlive-fonts-cm Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 14:41     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-09 15:00       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 10/35] gnu: Add texlive-fonts-knuth-lib Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 11/35] gnu: Add texlive-fonts-latex Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 12/35] gnu: Add texlive-tex-plain Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 13/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-base Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 14/35] build-system: Add 'texlive-build-system' Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 14:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-14  7:24       ` [bug#27296] " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-14  7:41         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 15/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-filecontents Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 16/35] gnu: Add texlive-generic-ifxetex Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 17/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-fancyvrb Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 18/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-graphics Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 19/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-xcolor Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 20/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-hyperref Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 21/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-oberdiek Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 22/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-tools Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 23/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-url Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 24/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-l3kernel Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 25/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-l3packages Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 26/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-fontspec Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 27/35] gnu: Add texlive-luatex-lualibs Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 28/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-amsmath Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 29/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-amscls Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 30/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-babel Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 31/35] gnu: texlive-latex-cyrillic Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 32/35] gnu: Add texlive-latex-psnfss Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 33/35] gnu: Add texlive-union Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 14:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-09 15:06       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 15:12         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-06-09 15:51           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 34/35] gnu: Add texlive-tiny Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 10:45   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 35/35] guix: Add texlive importer Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 15:05     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-15 15:01       ` [bug#27296] " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-16 15:06         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-16 16:12           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-09 14:38   ` bug#27296: [PATCH 01/35] guix: Add download-svn-to-store Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-15 15:04 ` bug#27296: Modular Texlive Ricardo Wurmus

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