Hello, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> writes:
> vapnik spaknik <[email protected]> writes: > >> I have texlive installed on a foreign distro at : >> >> /gnu/store/7s4hirky82mfdnmakxswsfb3y5pgg3l2-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf-dist >> >> >> within that directory I can see doc/info/latex2e.info >> i.e. the info file for latex2e >> However, I there is no symlink in $GUIX_PROFILE/share/info >> so I cant view it with info, unless I create a symlink myself. >> >> I guess this must be an oversight by the package developers, so I'm >> reporting it here. > > The INFOPATH searh path only looks under the share/info installation > prefix; that's why it doesn't see it. > > Perhaps there's a way to configure texlive-texmf to install its info > manuals to share/info instead of share/texmf-dist/doc/info; > alternatively we could, at the level of the texlive-texmf package > definition symlink any share/texmf-dist/doc/info/*.info to share/info/. The monolithic TeX Live is being phased out. Anyway, a fix for this has been pushed to "next-master" branch recently for modular TeX Live. I’m therefore closing this issue. Thanks for the report. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
