Am Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:14:08PM +0200 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > > So I am wondering now if we could use the graft mechanism to reduce the > > number of texlivetexmf substitutes in circulation. Is this at all > > reasonable to envisage? > The goal is to remove monolithic texlive completely. See > <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/1197>
Which means that you can (and should) go ahead now, Konrad, and move to the texlive installation with many separate packages; the only thing missing for the removal of monolithic texlive is me doing the actual work and cross-checking the Guix documentation etc.; everything you need is already in the distribution. Actually *what* people need will vary, I have installed the following: texlive-collection-latex texlive-collection-latexrecommended texlive-collection-xetex (as the basis, xetex is very optional) texlive-babel texlive-babel-english texlive-babel-french texlive-babel-german texlive-biber texlive-biblatex texlive-biblatex-software (this depends on your bibliography software; the latter is useful for SWH identifiers, which are probably a common requirement in this community!) texlive-pdfjam (for the executable with the same name) plus a number of packages that accumulated over time to compile this or that document. Andreas
