Am 15.07.26 um 23:59 schrieb Bruce Horrocks:
That mismatch is that Nix wants to install everything in hidden directories that it controls and that the user is actively prevented from changing (except via Nix). Context, on the other hand, lives in a directory named "context-<os_version>-<processor-type>" and you are encouraged to add your own packages, environment files and fonts into that directory tree.
Nnno… You’re not expected to change anything in the architecture dependend tree or the other "main" trees.
ConTeXt (LMTX) offers texmf-local, texmf-project and texmf-fonts for your own stuff, while texmf-modules could be filled via some package instructions using "mtxrun --script modules --install --all".
There’s also ~/texmf available, even if that is (usually) not indexed and thus a bit slower.
It *is* a problem if you install with admin/root permissions (LMTX or TeX live regardless), because then ConTeXt can’t change the caches anymore with just user rights; it will create additional "user" caches and conflicts between them lead to errors that are hard to analyze. You should delete the "root" caches after installation and let ConTeXt re-create them as user.
Lastly the TeXlive people clearly have better Nix fu than I do as there is a TexLive package that includes Context. <https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=26.05&query=texlivePackages.texlive-en#show=texlivePackages.texlive-en> This might be your path of least resistance if you can live with the Context version from the beginning of the year and the extra disk space needed for a full LaTeX as well.
The ConTeXt version in TeX live is much more current since Max Chernoff took over. AFAIK it’s usually only a few days behind if at all.
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