[Nix-dev] Installing TeXLive

[Eelco Dolstra]

Michael Raskin wrote:

> 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".

Yes, that's pretty much how it used to be done with teTeX.

>> Opinions?
> 
> It is non-trivial because of the need to maintain correct ls-R files
> (and something else). 

Simply setting $TEXINPUTS doesn't work?  I don't think the ls-R (kpathsea) files
 have to be up to date with respect to files in other directory trees, at least,
with teTeX it was never an issue.

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