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Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: Too many questions about texlive-texmf |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:40:58 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) |
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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?
If so, I'd say it's a bug :)