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doc: Discourage the use of texlive as input 

* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Discourage the use of texlive as
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@ -477,6 +477,16 @@ often better to clone the repository. Don't use the @command{name} field in
the URL: it is not very useful and if the name changes, the URL will probably
be wrong.
@item
Try to minimize the weight of the inputs to make the transitive closure as
small as possible (@pxref{Invoking guix size}). Use @command{native-inputs}
and @command{inputs} appropriately. It's sometimes sufficient to use the
@command{-minimal} version of a package as input, e.g. @command{bash-minimal}
instead of @command{bash}. In particular, avoid adding @command{texlive} as a
dependency: because of its extreme size, it's both heavy on the build farms
and on the users who would like to build or hack the package from source. Use
@command{texlive-tiny} or @command{texlive-union} instead.
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