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bug#26353: TeX Live
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#26353: TeX Live |
Date: |
Mon, 01 May 2017 23:24:14 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Danny!
>>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> 70 GiB non-home root partition seems also be too small for it all. I have
>>> to do guix gc quite often - I'll have to repartition somewhen.
>>>
>>> texlive finally downloaded correctly *shrugs*. Texlive is really getting
>>> on my nerves - isn't it possible to modularize it more? Also, one
>>> shouldn't require 2 GiB for a word processor and DTP. *mumble mumble*
>>
>> TeX Live is getting on everybody’s nerves. :-)
>>
>> There are ways to turn it into a zillion packages from CTAN, which is
>> what Nixpkgs did. Ricardo (I think?) had some thoughts as to how to
>> achieve this and I would really like to see it happen.
>
> That would be great. I miss this snippet from my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix:
>
> myTex = pkgs.texlive.combine {
> inherit (texlive) scheme-small marginnote sectsty cm-super enumitem
> xifthen ifmtarg unicode-math filehook collection-fontsrecommended
> collection-fontsextra libertine gentium-tug ucharcat;
> };
Yeah, I agree. Hopefully a profile hook could do what
pkgs.texlive.combine does, which would make it more convenient. Then we
also need a CTAN importer…
Ludo’.