Hey Guix, Tex Live packages often have a complicated source file layout. They don’t usually come in a nice self-contained tarball. Instead they are a mosaic of files that are sourced from different parts of the Tex Live SVN tree. For many Tex Live packages the “source” field is insufficient, so we add lots of additional origins as native inputs. This makes for very ugly package definitions. (See texlive-fonts-txfonts for an example.)
What do you think about adding a new procedure that can fetch sources from different locations? This might be done by extending SVN-FETCH or by adding a special TEXLIVE-FETCH that fetches sources from different directories in the source tree, returning them as *one* origin with one simple hash. -- Ricardo
