Subject: Re: bug#42449: texlive: l3regex.sty not shipped with texlive-latex-l3kernel

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:52:19 +0200

Jonathan Brielmaier <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 21.07.20 12:07, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Thanks for the report.  Yes,
> the “texlive-latex-l3kernel” package is
>> incomplete.  Most of the packages whose names follow the
>> “texlive-{latex,tex,generic}-*” pattern are incomplete because they
>> predate the introduction of “texlive-origin” (and more importantly
>> “svn-multi-fetch”).
>>
>> For all of these packages we need to write replacements that include all
>> source files as listed in $(guix build texlive-bin)/share/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
>
> Oke, I understand. So do we have examples of completely working texlive
> packages where I can have a look and try to do the same for l3kernel?

Yes.  Examples include “texlive-charter” (to replace
“texlive-fonts-charter”), “texlive-xypic” (to replace
“texlive-fonts-xypic” and “texlive-generic-xypic”), “texlive-xcolor”
(replacing “texlive-latex-xcolor”), etc.

Search for deprecated-package in tex.scm and you should find more
examples.

-- 
Ricardo