[Nix-dev] texlive-core and texlive-extra

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know a lot about tex/latex/texlive, but I'm trying to learn a bit.
> I need something called wrapfig.sty (emacs org-mode uses it). After
> some searching, I found it's part of texLiveExtra.
> However, when trying to install that, everything builds fine, but
> fails at the last step (muxing into my user profile), because of a
> collision between texLiveExtra and texLive itself. I need them both in
> my profile I think (I need the "pdflatex" command from texLive and
> this .sty file).
> 
> Is this a known bug?
> What's the easiest workaround?

I think one of the packages could have a 'meta.priority' attribute, that would
set out the collision.

I saw Eelco do that once in a commit :)