Neither texlive-babel-dutch nor texlive-hyphen-dutch load hyphenation. Test document:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage[dutch]{babel} \begin{document} test \end{document} Running with texlive-babel-dutch only: $ guix shell --pure texlive-base texlive-babel-dutch -- pdflatex test.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/GNU Guix) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4 L3 programming layer <2021-02-18> (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.def) (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/txtbabel.def)) (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-dutch/dutch.ldf Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for (babel) the language `Dutch' into the format. (babel) Please, configure your TeX system to add them and (babel) rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns (babel) preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 49. )) (/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdftex.def) (./test.aux) [1{/gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) ) </gnu/store/1p55mddnasba5xq2vcnzyc8wjywn4cwn-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 2226 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. With texlive-hyphen-dutch included: $ guix shell --pure texlive-base texlive-babel-dutch texlive-hyphen-dutch -- pdflatex test.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/GNU Guix) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4 L3 programming layer <2021-02-18> (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.def) (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/txtbabel.def)) (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-dutch/dutch.ldf Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for (babel) the language `Dutch' into the format. (babel) Please, configure your TeX system to add them and (babel) rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns (babel) preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 49. )) (/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdftex.def) (./test.aux) [1{/gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) ) </gnu/store/c61c43w5c7dlz7ipxcqi4z385p3a4dzb-profile/share/texmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmr10.pk> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 2226 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. Problem does not occur when using the complete TeX Live distribution: $ guix shell --pure texlive -- pdflatex test.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/GNU Guix) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4 L3 programming layer <2021-02-18> (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/generic/babel/txtbabel.def)) (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/generic/babel-dutch/dutch.ldf)) (/gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf -dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdftex.def) (./test.aux) [1{/gnu/store/lgkf z7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbvx1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/ pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) )</gnu/store/lgkfz7wg59sg81zlf3xy7i7dbv x1fvyp-texlive-texmf-20210325/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/c mr10.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10613 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. Am I doing something wrong?