Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > 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.
I understand, but this is hack to work around “broken packaging” on our side (“broken” in the sense that it sucks in comparison to what, say, Debian provides), not a great recipe that we want users to care about. > 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. OK. Ludo’.
