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Re: texlive problems


From: Federico Beffa
Subject: Re: texlive problems
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 21:57:19 +0200

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Fede,
>
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 06:45:46PM +0200, Federico Beffa wrote:
>> I've found a couple of problems with our TeXLive package:
>> * the directory dedicated to local packages is configured to:
>>   /gnu/texmf-local
>>   The standard location is $prefix/texmf-local
>>   You can check it with, e.g., 'kpsewhich --show-path=.sty'.
>
> as I understand it, this directory is simply not used in our installation.
> (So the variable is wrong, but it does not matter.) It is supposed to be
> used by system administrators installing packages for all users. In our case,
> I do not quite see which directory we would like to use for that; if Guix
> is installed on another LFS distribution, we could use /usr/local/texmf or
> something similar. It cannot be $prefix/whatever, as the store is immutable.
>
> Right now, individual users should install tex things into
> $HOME/.texlive2015. For instance,
> $HOME/.texlive2015/texmf-var/tex/latex/beamerouterthemexyz.sty.

Say package A provides $prefix/texmf-local/tex/generic/my-A.tex and
package B $prefix/texmf-local/tex/generic/my-B.tex. When they are
installed in a profile they get collected into
$guix-profile/texmf-local/tex/generic/.

Local files could then be searched in $guix-profile/texmf-local.

Regards,
Fede



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