Subject: Re: [bug#60820] [PATCH] Add 'totpages' latex package.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:42:46 +0100 (CET)

Hello,

> It is not "instead of". We want to install all of them, while, when
> possible, generating them from source.

> Let's assume for a second Guix provides all TeX Live packages
> piece-wise. The idea is that if someone installs all the packages, they
> would get the whole TeX Live distribution, including the sources, i.e.,
> the "texlive" package.

But if someone need the source, my understanding is that one can just use guix  build -S 
or some other command to retrieve them.
So I don't see the interest of having them too in the compiled output, as they are not useful for 
normal usage of the package; it seems to take up space for no reason.

Sorry to bother you with my questions, as I am new to guix.

Regards,
Matthieu Lemerre