From 9f61e11ba445fe850ee93378380e7804c83f7db4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Neidhardt Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:32:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc/1.0.org: Add TeXlive issues --- doc/1.0.org | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/1.0.org b/doc/1.0.org index a5edd02..6501d41 100644 --- a/doc/1.0.org +++ b/doc/1.0.org @@ -37,3 +37,14 @@ * miscellaneous ** TODO “GuixSD” renamed to “Guix System”? ** TODO “Cuirass” renamed to “Guix CI”? +** TODO Replace "texlive" dependency with minimal TeXlive unions +TeXlive is rather important for lots of users but also lots of packages. Some +packages (e.g. "asymptote" and "mit-scheme") depend on the full TeXlive +distribution (5GB). This is way too much for many users (low disk space, low +bandwidth, or simply lack of time), so we need to work out the set of strictly +required TeXlive packages for each package depending on TeXlive. +We need to package the missing individual TeXlive packages in those unions. +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-05/msg00218.html +** TODO TeXlive profile hook +We’ll need a profile hook so people have the option to directly install +individual texlive packages in their profile.