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texlive-new: mktextfm: mf command not found #17717
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Well, yes, I know about that. I specifically purged metafont from the most basic dependencies, because it needs nontrivial dependencies and "standard LaTeX making" don't require it. Do you think the situation would be better if |
Yes, it is better to remove |
I see now; that is a bug caused by the purging I've done. |
@vcunat, switching from |
@deepfire: adding |
@vcunat, thanks! Maybe I'll try it.. |
@deepfire progress? |
This appears to be working fine. Closing for now. |
Encountered this error with
I can confirm that the problem was solved for my by adding the
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I guess, the general rule of thumb is that if it doesn't reproduce with scheme-full, it's likely not a bug. In this case, as @vcunat, mentioned it's a feature: nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix Lines 49 to 59 in 3c3840e
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Issue description
mktextfm
cannot work because of absence ofmf
command:Steps to reproduce
However,
mktextfm
works fine withmetafont
:Technical details
16.09pre88185.52a875f (Flounder)
nix-env (Nix) 1.11.2
16.09pre88185.52a875f
and16.09.git.a18abd2M
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