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[PATCH] gnu: Add texlive-mathdots.

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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "yarl baudig" <yarl-baudig <at> mailoo.org>
Cc: 59354 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#59354] [PATCH] gnu: Add texlive-mathdots.
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:46:52 +0100

"yarl baudig" <yarl-baudig <at> mailoo.org> writes:

> I saw that "guix import texlive mathdots" doesn't include "#:trivial?
> #t" But I still don't see why it is not effectively a trivial package.
> As I told you, the ".tex" and ".sty" are already in the TUG repo. And
> with the package as I defined it (as trivial), when you build it, you
> get the "mathdots.sty" and "mathdots.tex". No need to compile because,
> whereas there is a ".ins" file, ".sty" and ".tex" are already compiled
> and distributed, along the ".ins". Right?

Whenever possible, Guix builds packages from source, and avoids using
pre-compiled files. In this case, we can generate ".sty" and ".tex"
files, so let's do that. Does that make sense?

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