Subject: Re: bug#64783: Build of texlive-font-maps fails

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:12:36 +0200

Hi Isaac,

Isaac van Bakel <[email-masked]> writes:

> I had the same issue, with a pretty minimal manifest:
>
>
> (use-modules (gnu packages))
> (use-package-modules tex)
>
> (packages->manifest (list texlive texlive-amsmath texlive-txfonts))
>
>
> Based on the suggestion that the missing files are propagated by 
> texlive-bin, I added that to the manifest and found that the build 
> succeeded. So is the issue that texlive is not propagating 
> texlive-scripts correctly?

The `texlive` package contains the whole monolothic texlive
distribution, and is different from the newer modular one.  You probably
want `texlive-bin` instead.  `texlive-scheme-basic` is a meta-package
propagating a basic set of tex packages that you might need.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret