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





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