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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 Leo Famulari@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Ricardo Wurmus@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Ricardo Wurmus@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 Chris Marusich@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Efraim Flashner@*
@@ -11875,14 +11875,14 @@ guix import cran --archive=git https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony
 @item texlive
 @cindex TeX Live
 @cindex CTAN
-Import metadata from @uref{https://www.ctan.org/, CTAN}, the
-comprehensive TeX archive network for TeX packages that are part of the
-@uref{https://www.tug.org/texlive/, TeX Live distribution}.
+Import TeX package information from the TeX Live package database for
+TeX packages that are part of the @uref{https://www.tug.org/texlive/,
+TeX Live distribution}.
 
-Information about the package is obtained through the XML API provided
-by CTAN, while the source code is downloaded from the SVN repository of
-the Tex Live project.  This is done because the CTAN does not keep
-versioned archives.
+Information about the package is obtained from the TeX Live package
+database, a plain text file that is included in the @code{texlive-bin}
+package.  The source code is downloaded from possibly multiple locations
+in the SVN repository of the Tex Live project.
 
 The command command below imports metadata for the @code{fontspec}
 TeX package:
@@ -11891,19 +11891,6 @@ TeX package:
 guix import texlive fontspec
 @end example
 
-When @option{--archive=@var{directory}} is added, the source code is
-downloaded not from the @file{latex} sub-directory of the
-@file{texmf-dist/source} tree in the TeX Live SVN repository, but from
-the specified sibling @var{directory} under the same root.
-
-The command below imports metadata for the @code{ifxetex} package from
-CTAN while fetching the sources from the directory
-@file{texmf/source/generic}:
-
-@example
-guix import texlive --archive=generic ifxetex
-@end example
-
 @item json
 @cindex JSON, import
 Import package metadata from a local JSON file.  Consider the following