[Nix-dev] Re: Package collection problem.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:

> I have remarked while installing texlive that I need a function to
> aggregate all tex packages that I may use in order to have a set of
> working tools.  IMO, such things should not appear to the user as the
> user may only want to install texlive-core and texlive-beamer and not
> a wrapper.

FWIW, we had a discussion on this topic before:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/976

The on-going Python discussion is apparently another instance of this
problem.

Thanks,
Ludo'.