[Nix-dev] Installing TeXLive

[Andres Loeh]

No, you shouldn't add a line to all-packages.nix. This file is overloaded
anyway.

Here's what I do in such cases. I create a new file in ~/.nix-defexpr,
in this case called texlive.nix (alternatively, you could have one file
there and include all similar situations):

let

  nixpkgs = (import ./nixpkgs_sys) {};

in

with nixpkgs; {

  myTexLive = texLiveAggregationFun {
    paths = [
      texLive texLiveExtra texLiveBeamer
    ];
  } // { name = "mytexlive"; };

}

Then, I say

nix-env -i mytexlive

in order to install the thing.

Alternatively, if you want to have the aggregation globally, you could
of course add it to configuration.nix ...

Cheers,
  Andres