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

[Mathijs Kwik]

oops, getting late

link to my config.nix
https://gist.github.com/1603644

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:
> I'm probably doing something stupid...
>
> This is my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix
>
> As you can see, I tried to apply hiPrio to texLive, which boils down
> to setting meta.priority to something higher.
>
> I get this error message:
>
> % nix-env -iA nixpkgs_sys.mathijs --show-trace
>
>
>                       /home/mathijs  0
> replacing old `mathijs'
> installing `mathijs'
> error: while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
> while instantiating the derivation named `mathijs' at
> `/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix:10:14':
> while evaluating the derivation attribute `paths' at
> `/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix:29:12':
> cannot coerce a function to a string
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:
>> that sounds like it would do the trick
>> I'll see how to use that
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> 2012/1/12 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
>>> 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 :)