Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-06 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 13:03, Josselin Poiret wrote: > While using a bit of LaTeX recently, I've noticed some packages don't > work "out-of-the-box", at least on LuaLaTeX, and need some additional > propagated inputs. Examples would be babel-french needing scalefnt, > fontspec needing luaot

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nguyễn Gia Phong skribis: > On 2023-01-04 at 08:11+01:00, Reza Housseini wrote: >> What about size? Does [propagating all build inputs] >> not bloat up profile sizes? > > I'm new to Guix, but aren't both build inputs > and propagated build inputs required at run time? > IIUC the only difference i

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-03 Thread Nguyễn Gia Phong
On 2023-01-04 at 08:11+01:00, Reza Housseini wrote: > What about size? Does [propagating all build inputs] > not bloat up profile sizes? I'm new to Guix, but aren't both build inputs and propagated build inputs required at run time? IIUC the only difference is that the propagated ones' env is, ehm

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-03 Thread Reza Housseini
Good question, maybe we should just do that. Thoughts? What about size? Does this not bloat up profile sizes? -- Reza Housseini This message is signed with my GnuPG key: C0F3 0812 9AF2 80F4 0830 C2C1 C375 C6AF 0512 5C52 OpenPGP_0xC375C6AF05125C52.asc Description: OpenPGP public key

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nguyễn Gia Phong skribis: > On 2023-01-03 at 10:05+01:00, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> But how difficult would it be to identify what needs to be propagated? > > Is there any practical reasons to not propagate all TeX packages? > For other language I suppose we need to avoid version clashing, > but

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-03 Thread Nguyễn Gia Phong
On 2023-01-03 at 10:05+01:00, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > But how difficult would it be to identify what needs to be propagated? Is there any practical reasons to not propagate all TeX packages? For other language I suppose we need to avoid version clashing, but in my experience TeX packages usually

Re: LaTeX packaging policy

2023-01-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Josselin Poiret skribis: > While using a bit of LaTeX recently, I've noticed some packages don't > work "out-of-the-box", at least on LuaLaTeX, and need some additional > propagated inputs. Examples would be babel-french needing scalefnt, > fontspec needing luaotfload, or hyperref needin

LaTeX packaging policy

2022-12-24 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi everyone, While using a bit of LaTeX recently, I've noticed some packages don't work "out-of-the-box", at least on LuaLaTeX, and need some additional propagated inputs. Examples would be babel-french needing scalefnt, fontspec needing luaotfload, or hyperref needing stringenc. Is there any es