[Nix-dev] Installing TeXLive

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Can't we instead solve that by doing the job of `texLiveAggregationFun',
> i.e., collecting things in a single directory, in each package's
> `postInstall'?  That is, `texlive-{core,beamer,extra}' would install
> cls/sty files under "$out/share/texmf-dist" such that the user only
> needs to "export TEXINPUTS=$HOME/.nix-profile/share/texmf-dist".
> 
> Opinions?

It is non-trivial because of the need to maintain correct ls-R files
(and something else). So you will have to do some work done by TeXLive's
helpers manually, and in exactly the same way.. I didn't find courage in
myself to figure all that out (and to maintain it later).
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