Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > It would be nice to have an incremental strategy with a hierarchy, say > texlive-base, texlive-common, texlive-extra, texlive-all, where each > package is non-overlapping with other ones. Then a new functionality to > aggregate packages into a new package where you specify which packages > to include. Something like > > guix package --aggregate texlive --with texlive-base texlive-common ... > > This would be useful for packages with plug-ins, to bundle compilers with > a selection of libraries, ...
I think the problem here is really that TeX Live is monolithic, and I don’t think that should be addressed by the packaging tools themselves. My 2¢, Ludo’.
