GNU bug report logs - #54422
texlive-texmf info manuals are installed outside INFOPATH

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@HIDDEN>
To: vapnik spaknik <vapniks@HIDDEN>
Subject: texlive-texmf info manuals are installed outside INFOPATH
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Hello,

vapnik spaknik <vapniks@HIDDEN> writes:

> I have texlive installed on a foreign distro at :=C2=A0
> =C2=A0/gnu/store/7s4hirky82mfdnmakxswsfb3y5pgg3l2-texlive-texmf-20210325/=
share/texmf-dist=C2=A0
>
> within that directory I can see doc/info/latex2e.info
> i.e. the info file for latex2e
> However, I there is no symlink in $GUIX_PROFILE/share/info
> so I cant view it with info, unless I create a symlink myself.
>
> I guess this must be an oversight by the package developers, so I'm repor=
ting it here.

The INFOPATH searh path only looks under the share/info installation
prefix; that's why it doesn't see it.

Perhaps there's a way to configure texlive-texmf to install its info
manuals to share/info instead of share/texmf-dist/doc/info;
alternatively we could, at the level of the texlive-texmf package
definition symlink any share/texmf-dist/doc/info/*.info to share/info/.

Would you like to give it a try?

I'm turning this into a proper bug report, by emailing
"bug-guix@HIDDEN".

Thanks for the report!

Maxim