Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Danny!
>>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> 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’.
