On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:45:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi jgart, > > "jgart" <jg...@dismail.de> skribis: > > > ./pre-inst-env guix refresh --update python-sphinx > > [...] > > > - ;; The Sphinx LaTeX library '\RequirePackage' or \\usepackage > > - ;; these: > > - texlive-amsfonts ;amsmath, amssymb, amstext > > - texlive-amsmath > > - texlive-capt-of > > - texlive-carlisle ;remreset > > To avoid this problem one can add package properties such as > ‘updater-extra-native-inputs’ in this case: > > > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-refresh.html#index-updater_002dextra_002dinputs_002c-package-property > > However, the way it’s implemented right now, you have to list the name > of every input that should be preserved by ‘guix refresh -u’, which is > inconvenient in this particular case because there are many of them. > > I can think of two ways to improve on that: > > 1. Use one of the ‘texlive-scheme-*’ packages instead of this long > list. :-) > > 2. Change the code to interpret extra inputs are regexps instead of > names.
I like both ideas -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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