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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 |