On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > 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”.
It is only about choice, you can always just install texlive if you are ready to download gigabytes of data! Personally, I like to just download texlive-bin and to build texlive locally from a tarball stored locally on my hard disk, to avoid downloading all the data. This was the original reason (plus easier debugging) that I kept the internal packages -bin and -texmf public; I think it was a mistake, since it seems to lead to a lot of confusion. So I will hide both the internal packages one of these days. Users are advised to not install either texlive-bin or texlive-texmf into their profile; they will not work correctly together. Either install texlive to get the full experience, or try out texlive-minimal (which ships neither the documentation nor the fonts except for Computer Modern, and also breaks some of the more exotic tex frontends). Andreas
