Am Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 04:20:01PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > > I have a local copy of the 4GB file texlive-20240312-texmf.tar.xz in my > > home directory, which I put into the store with "guix download". > That’s tantamount to cheating! It is smart, but since Guix provides > a `texlive' package, users are expected to be able to "guix install" it. > They will have to retrieve the 4GB tarball first.
Definitely! But in this way, one only needs to retrieve it once per year, and not every time the texlive package gets updated (which happens amazingly often) after the store has been cleaned with a "guix gc". Andreas