diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/asymptote/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/asymptote/default.nix
index aeb51d66bf6f..4af2e3be5371 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/asymptote/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/asymptote/default.nix
@@ -4,29 +4,26 @@
 , boehmgc, libGLU, libGL, mesa, ncurses, readline, gsl, libsigsegv
 , python3, qtbase, qtsvg, boost
 , zlib, perl, curl
-, texliveSmall, texinfo
+, texinfo
+, texlive
+, texliveSmall
 , darwin
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "2.88";
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  version = "2.89";
   pname = "asymptote";
 
   outputs = [ "out" "man" "info" "doc" "tex" ];
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/asymptote/${version}/asymptote-${version}.src.tgz";
-    hash = "sha256-DecadD+m7pORuH3Sdcs/5M3vUbN6rhSkFoNN0Soq9bs=";
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/asymptote/${finalAttrs.version}/asymptote-${finalAttrs.version}.src.tgz";
+    hash = "sha256-9k5itO5PhfGnhkDE8eim+Y6R9U7ayrGXJ8fKvpSlf1s=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      # partial fix for macOS XDR/V3D support (LDFLAGS change seems like an unrelated bugfix)
-      name = "restore-LDFLAGS-dont-look-for-tirpc-under-MacOS.patch";
-      url = "https://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote/commit/7e17096b22d18d133d1bc5916b6e32c0cb24ad10.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-olCFzqfZwWOAjqlB5lDPXYRHU9i3VQNgoR0cO5TmW98=";
-    })
-  ];
+  # override with TeX Live containers to avoid building sty, docs from source
+  texContainer = null;
+  texdocContainer = null;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     autoreconfHook
@@ -37,13 +34,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     wrapQtAppsHook
     cmake
     pkg-config
-  ];
+  ] ++ lib.optional (finalAttrs.texContainer == null || finalAttrs.texdocContainer == null)
+    (texliveSmall.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ epsf cm-super ps.texinfo media9 ocgx2 collection-latexextra ]));
 
   buildInputs = [
     ghostscriptX imagemagick fftw eigen
     boehmgc ncurses readline gsl libsigsegv
     zlib perl curl qtbase qtsvg boost
-    (texliveSmall.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ epsf cm-super ps.texinfo media9 ocgx2 collection-latexextra ]))
     (python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ cson numpy pyqt5 ]))
   ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [ libtirpc ];
 
@@ -57,12 +54,25 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   dontWrapQtApps = true;
 
-  # Do not build $tex/ls-R which will be generated by texlive.combine
+  # do not build $tex/ls-R which will be generated by texlive.withPackages
+  # do not build and install sty and docs, if provided by tex/texdoc texlive containers
+  # (this is an optimisation to make texliveMedium and texliveFull independent of texliveSmall)
   preConfigure = ''
     HOME=$TMP
     substituteInPlace Makefile.in \
-      --replace-fail 'install: install-notexhash install-texhash' 'install: install-notexhash install-asy'
-    prependToVar configureFlags "--with-latex=$tex/tex/latex" "--with-context=$tex/tex/context/third"
+      --replace-fail ' install-texhash' '''
+    if [[ -n $texContainer ]] ; then
+      sed -i Makefile.in -e '/(\(latex\|context\)dir)/d'
+      substituteInPlace Makefile.in \
+        --replace-fail 'asy sty' 'asy'
+    else
+      prependToVar configureFlags "--with-latex=$tex/tex/latex" "--with-context=$tex/tex/context/third"
+    fi
+    if [[ -n $texdocContainer ]] ; then
+      substituteInPlace Makefile.in \
+        --replace-fail ' install-man' ''' \
+        --replace-fail 'docdir = $(DESTDIR)@docdir@' 'docdir = $(TMP)/doc'
+    fi
   '';
 
   # do not use bundled libgc.so
@@ -76,12 +86,36 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     rm "$out"/bin/xasy
     makeQtWrapper "$out"/share/asymptote/GUI/xasy.py "$out"/bin/xasy --prefix PATH : "$out"/bin
 
-    mv "$info"/share/info/asymptote/*.info "$info"/share/info/
-    sed -i -e 's|(asymptote/asymptote)|(asymptote)|' "$info"/share/info/asymptote.info
-    rmdir "$info"/share/info/asymptote
-    rm -f "$info"/share/info/dir
+    if [[ -z $texdocContainer ]] ; then
+      mv "$info"/share/info/asymptote/*.info "$info"/share/info/
+      sed -i -e 's|(asymptote/asymptote)|(asymptote)|' "$info"/share/info/asymptote.info
+      rmdir "$info"/share/info/asymptote
+      rm -f "$info"/share/info/dir
+    fi
+    install -Dt $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/${finalAttrs.pname} $out/share/asymptote/*.el
+  '';
 
-    install -Dt $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/${pname} $out/share/asymptote/*.el
+  # fixupPhase crashes if the outputs are not directories
+  preFixup = ''
+    if [[ -n $texContainer ]] ; then
+      mkdir -p "$tex"
+    fi
+    if [[ -n $texdocContainer ]] ; then
+      mkdir -p "$doc" "$man" "$info"
+    fi
+  '';
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    if [[ -n $texContainer ]] ; then
+      rmdir "$tex"
+      ln -s "$texContainer" "$tex"
+    fi
+    if [[ -n $texdocContainer ]] ; then
+      mkdir -p "$man/share" "$info/share"
+      ln -s "$texdocContainer" "$doc/share"
+      ln -s "$texdocContainer/doc/man" "$man/share"
+      ln -s "$texdocContainer/doc/info" "$info/share"
+    fi
   '';
 
   dontUseCmakeConfigure = true;
@@ -98,4 +132,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     maintainers = [ maintainers.raskin ];
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
index 06449d8ff1c5..af810aa51d31 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 , makeWrapper, shortenPerlShebang, useFixedHashes, asymptote
 , biber-ms
 , tlpdb
-}:
+}@args:
 
 # Useful resource covering build options:
 # http://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html
@@ -420,7 +420,28 @@ pygmentex = python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   };
 };
 
-inherit asymptote;
+asymptote = args.asymptote.overrideAttrs (finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
+  version = texlive.pkgs.asymptote.version;
+
+  # keep local src and patches even if duplicated in the top level asymptote
+  # so that top level updates do not break texlive
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/asymptote/${finalAttrs.version}/asymptote-${finalAttrs.version}.src.tgz";
+    hash = "sha256-DecadD+m7pORuH3Sdcs/5M3vUbN6rhSkFoNN0Soq9bs=";
+  };
+
+  texContainer = texlive.pkgs.asymptote.tex;
+  texdocContainer = texlive.pkgs.asymptote.texdoc;
+
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      # partial fix for macOS XDR/V3D support (LDFLAGS change seems like an unrelated bugfix)
+      name = "restore-LDFLAGS-dont-look-for-tirpc-under-MacOS.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote/commit/7e17096b22d18d133d1bc5916b6e32c0cb24ad10.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-olCFzqfZwWOAjqlB5lDPXYRHU9i3VQNgoR0cO5TmW98=";
+    })
+  ];
+});
 
 inherit biber;
 inherit biber-ms;
@@ -499,23 +520,23 @@ xindy = stdenv.mkDerivation {
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace xindy-*/user-commands/xindy.in \
       --replace-fail "our \$clisp = ( \$is_windows ? 'clisp.exe' : 'clisp' ) ;" \
-                     "our \$clisp = '$(type -P clisp)';"
+                     "our \$clisp = '$(type -P clisp)';" \
+      --replace-fail 'die "$cmd: Cannot locate xindy modules directory";' \
+                     '$modules_dir = "${texlive.pkgs.xindy.tex}/xindy/modules"; die "$cmd: Cannot locate xindy modules directory" unless -d $modules_dir;'
   '';
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config perl
-    (texlive.combine { inherit (texlive) scheme-basic cyrillic ec; })
   ];
   buildInputs = [ clisp libiconv perl ];
 
-  configureFlags = [ "--with-clisp-runtime=system" "--disable-xindy-docs" ];
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-clisp-runtime=system" "--disable-xindy-docs" "--disable-xindy-rules" ];
 
   preInstall = ''mkdir -p "$out/bin" '';
   # fixup various file-location errors of: lib/xindy/{xindy.mem,modules/}
   postInstall = ''
     mkdir -p "$out/lib/xindy"
     mv "$out"/{bin/xindy.mem,lib/xindy/}
-    ln -s ../../share/texmf-dist/xindy/modules "$out/lib/xindy/"
   '';
 };