Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-04-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 07:09:46PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > > This looks a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75893 . > > I should test with your fix on the tex-team branch. > I would indeed appreciate some feedback! as mentioned in the issue, your fix appears to work very well.

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-04-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 03:21:15PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > The upgrade process is explained at length in the comments of the > "tex.scm" module in case anyone is curious about it. > I don’t keep track of anything. I let the importer tell me what packages > disappeared, and what are the new

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-03-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > Actually I am wrong, it is CTAN, not Texlive. And CTAN contains rather > obscure packages, such as the thesis format for this or that university, > which I suppose are not shipped as part of Texlive. I believe TeX Live includes all free parts of CTAN. In particular

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-03-25 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:51:24PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > Am Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 07:09:46PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > > > This looks a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75893 . > > > I should test with your fix on the tex-team branch. > > I would indeed appreciate some

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-03-25 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > So maybe once the fix for issue 75893 is pushed and the modular texlive > updated to version 2025, it will finally be time to retire the > monolithic package. Modular TeX Live 2025 is on its way! > Well, I do not know how complicated it will be to update the modul

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-03-20 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > For compiling a set of slides of a talk, now time is an issue: > real 0m36,095s > user 0m13,706s > sys 0m22,710s > > With the monolithic texlive: > real 0m9,127s > user 0m9,260s > sys 0m0,613s > (which is already a lot when one has to recompile every time af

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-03-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Nicolas, Am Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 04:20:01PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > FWIW, I think texlive-scheme-* packages are opinionated collections that > have no other purpose than recreating past TeX distributions. One should > only rely on texlive-collection-* packages. > What collection to

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-22 Thread Andreas Enge
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' pack

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-22 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > My workflow when updating Guix is as follows: > 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". Then > "guix shell -D texlive" creates the texlivetexmf package locally while >

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 08:50:02AM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > It is not the case anymore. However, Andreas Enge (Cc’ed) prefers to > keep it as a no-brainer for anyone who wants to compile TeX documents > and can afford the download cost. I’d love to get feedback about the > compariso

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-10 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > Thanks for that analysis! I had the innocuous-looking 'texlive' in my > Guix Home profile. That package pulls in texlivetexmf-${date}. [1] Was > that my error? No, it wasn’t. The `texlive' package is

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-10 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Nicolas, On Fri, Jan 10 2025, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > don’t need every package in there Thanks for that analysis! I had the innocuous-looking 'texlive' in my Guix Home profile. That package pulls in texlivetexmf-${date}. [1] Was that my error? Kind regards Felix P.S. After a good night's

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-09 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > I am talking about 'texlivetexmf-20240312'. > > While I'm lucky that there is a substitute, I can hardly use it. The `texlivetexmf' package has a `#:substitutable #f' flag. Unless I’m mistaken, you’re

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2025-01-09 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Nicolas, On Sat, Oct 26 2024, Nicolas Goaziou via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > What TexLive are you talking about? I am talking about 'texlivetexmf-20240312'. While I'm lucky that there is a substitute, I can hardly use it. At 3.95GB and 31 kB/sec dow

Re: Thoughtful updates to TexLive

2024-10-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, Felix Lechner writes: > Should updates to TexLive or its prerequisites fall under the > core-updates policy (or whatever its successor is)? > > My Guix is heavily modified and building TexLive takes an hour and a > half. Grafting it takes nearly as long. Thanks! What TexLive are you tal