Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-ess.

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 05/07/16 21:44, Roel Janssen wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft writes:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > On 05/07/16 20:56, Roel Janssen wrote:
> > > Dear Guix,
> > >
> > > I have a question about the following patch to add emacs-ess.
> > Thanks, I was also making a half-hearted attempt at this.
> Sorry for the duplicated effort.  I am happy to merge the two if you're
> doing something more intelligent in your patch :).

Oh not at all, the half in 'half-heartedly' was very generous.

> > > By default, the build files rely upon a LaTeX distribution to be
> > > installed to generate a PDF from its Texinfo documentation.
> > >
> > > I know that texlive is quite a heavy package, so should I separate the
> > > output of this package in "out" and "doc", and substitute/patch the
> > > involved Makefiles?
> > Have you tried texlive-minimal ?
> I hadn't thought of that.  Good idea.  Would it be acceptable to use
> texlive-minimal instead, without splitting it in two outputs?

As Ricardo suggests perhaps they should be native-inputs instead, in 
which case splitting the outputs doesn't help since we do not have 
output-specific inputs.

ben