On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:46:42AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > 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.
I have been working on a split of texlive into two private packages, the binaries and the data (which unfortunately depends on the binaries), and a public one that joins the two. We could then also have a texlive-small with a smaller data portion. With Ludovic we have been discussing numerous solutions over the last week, but when implementing them, something always went wrong... I think we now have a solution that works with wrapping all binaries, and once some changes are made in core-updates to enable this for symbolic links, it should be easy to implement. But before it works, I am not giving guarantees any more... Then a possible solution would be to substitute the binary package (which requires CPU time), but not the data package (which requires almost none). Andreas
