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| author | Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> | 2026-01-06 12:35:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz> | 2026-01-25 21:17:44 +0100 |
| commit | 7f46cd4becbb82240c676d1024055eeb04efca95 (patch) | |
| tree | a172fdc95e55147c175f3f15e69f558eab039892 /doc | |
| parent | 15f87a0f037ec9b4f5045965416652670ffd955f (diff) | |
gnu: texlive: Deprecate in favor of texlive-scheme-full.
* gnu/packages/texlive.scm (%texlive-date, %texlive-year,
texlive-extra-src, texlive-texmf-src, texlivebin, texlivetexmf): Delete
variables.
(texlive): Redefine as texlive-scheme-full.
* gnu/packages/books.scm: Remove module inclusion.
* doc/guix.texi: Remove documentation for monolithic texlive.
Change-Id: I23837ca29cbbc080833be122972dcfe31c0fd1bb
Signed-off-by: Rutherther <rutherther@ditigal.xyz>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 22 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e23f7854708..bdaadba6526 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -55310,27 +55310,9 @@ related typesetting systems, taken from the Because @TeX{} Live is so huge and because finding one's way in this maze is tricky, this section provides some guidance on how to deploy the relevant packages to compile @TeX{} and @LaTeX{} documents. - -@TeX{} Live currently comes in two mutually exclusive flavors in Guix: - -@itemize -@item -The ``monolithic'' @code{texlive} package: it comes with @emph{every -single @TeX{} Live package} (roughly 4,200), but it is huge---more than -4@tie{}GiB for a single package! - -@item -A ``modular'' @TeX{} Live distribution, in which you only install the +Guix contains the full @TeX{} Live distribution in a modular setup, +in which you only install the packages you need, whose name is always prefixed with @samp{texlive-}. -@end itemize - -To insist, these two flavors cannot be combined@footnote{No rule -without exception! As the monolithic @TeX{} Live does not contain the -@command{biber} executable, it is okay to combine it with -@code{texlive-biber}, which does.}. If in the modular setting your -document does not compile, the solution is not to add the monolithic -@code{texlive} package, but to add the set of missing packages from the -modular distribution. Building a coherent system that provides all the essential tools and, at the same time, satisfies all of its internal dependencies can be |