I know that OpenSuse also breaks TeXlive into the 2000+ individual packages.
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Pierre Neidhardt
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:04:26AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
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> > This does not contradict what I wrote. *Building* the packages differs
> > from just copying the generated files to their expected locations. I
> > doubt Nix actually generates all these files from
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says
>> should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite
>> another to generate them all from their respective sources.
>
> Nix separates them all, it provid
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says
> should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite
> another to generate them all from their respective sources.
Nix separates them all, it provides the 2000+ packages.
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Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
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>> I’m afraid the texlive importer will have much less of an impact than
>> we’d all wish.
>
> Hmm... it seems to work for Nix though. Am I mistaken?
It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says
should be installed.
Pierre Neidhardt writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
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>> Jelle Licht writes:
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>>> I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have
>>> is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged.
>> […]
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> We should update texlive. The latest tagged re
Jelle Licht writes:
> I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have
> is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged.
[…]
> Thoughts?
We should update texlive. The latest tagged release according to
https://tug.org/svn/texlive/tags/ is “texlive-2019.3”.
Guix,
I've noticed some time ago that the biber version that we currently have
is incompatible with the texlive revision we have packaged.
Incidentally, since the latest core-updates merge, biber does not pass
its test suite anymore due to the hardcoded
`perl-unicode-collate'-related hashes. I th
