Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:20:33AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Or simply: >> guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive-texmf)' > > That is nifty! I suppose this also uses substitutes if present?
Yes, of course. > In that case, > we could even make the texlive-bin package private as well, and a user could > execute: > guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive-bin)' > guix download file:/my/path/to/texlive-20150523-texmf.tar.xz > guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages texlive) texlive)' --no-substitutes We don’t want people to have to do that, do we? :-) Personally, I don’t want to have to think beyond “guix package -i texlive”. Ludo’.