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Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex


From: Pierre Neidhardt
Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:13:12 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1

> However, for this purpose I am not sure that the substitutes are the
> right layer.
> And a field "provide" should be added to the package record. I do not
> know if it makes sense.
> Or maybe something with "properties". I mean, there is less package
> providing multiple binaries (as texlive) than package providing the
> binary of its name.

We can't do that in package declarations because they don't hold any information
on the resulting derivation.

The "file list" problem is essentially at the same level as "guix size".

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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