Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes: > What’s missing? > > Currently, one needs to set a lot of environment variables to use these > separate packages. For “fastcap” I needed to set “DVIPSHEADERS” (to > find “tex.pro”), “TFMFONTS” (for compiled metafont files), “TEXFORMATS” > (for the compiled “latex.fmt”), and “TEXINPUTS” (for all directories > containing tex source files). Setting these variables manually is > really tedious. > > How can we set them automatically? A simple idea is to provide a > procedure “texlive-union” that takes texlive packages and produces a > wrapped variant of the tools in “texlive-bin” that run inside an > environment where these variables are set.
After reading, it is not clear to me why having all the environment variables set in “~/.guix-profile/etc/profile” is not good enough, or not possible? -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
