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authorNicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>2025-02-10 11:29:23 +0100
committerAndreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>2025-05-06 11:25:05 +0200
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gnu: texlive build system: Un-dumbify a comment.
* guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm (build): Clarify a poorly explained design choice. Change-Id: Ida4e4ccb3934f8b5cc7a6e36e33cec7a5e5581e8
-rw-r--r--guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm b/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
index 4a1afc709b..25b64991f7 100644
--- a/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
+++ b/guix/build/texlive-build-system.scm
@@ -214,8 +214,10 @@ runfile to replace. If a file has no matching runfile, it is ignored."
f))))
build-targets))
((directory-exists? "source")
- ;; Prioritize ".ins" files over ".dtx" files. There's no
- ;; scientific reasoning here; it just seems to work better.
+ ;; Prioritize ".ins" files over ".dtx" files. The former only
+ ;; generate runfiles whereas the latter usually also rebuild
+ ;; documentation, which is not regenerated during the build process
+ ;; as it would introduce some bootstrapping issues.
(match (find-files "source" "\\.ins$")
(() (find-files "source" "\\.dtx$"))
(files files)))