Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:56:17PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote:
>> So, I guess grafting takes a very long time. For this package it is
>> not substantially faster than building the package itself. :-(
>
> The speciality of texlive is that it is relatively easy to build - some CPU
> time
> for the binaries. Then the data is essentially only unpacked and some of the
> binaries are run on them, but the latter takes only minutes. So I would always
> recommend to (re-)build the package locally.
I wonder if we should consider setting #:substitutable? #f for texlive.
However, we would have to be careful not to propagate this setting, as
was recently proposed in the "Numpy failures" thread.
Mark
