On Sat, 26 May 2012 22:45:37 +1200 Sam Lin <sam.lin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD fellows, > > Those who are using LaTeX on FreeBSD must know that tetex has been > discontinued years ago and that TeXLive is now recommended, however > TeXLive has never been merged in the ports tree on FreeBSD and that > tetex is still used on FreeBSD ports. Although there have been some > "customized" work so that FreeBSD users can install and use TeXLive > on FreeBSD machine (for example, > http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/wiki/Installing), this is > quite confusing and may still cause conflict on the system side when > using or maintaining it. > > There has also been years of gossips that a Japanese developer Hiroki > Sato (hrs@freebsd) has been working on this matter for the last years > and therefore the FreeBSD admin panel don't want anyone else to work > on this and merge it into the ports tree. > > I actually contacted Hiroki Sato in the beginning of last year (2011) > regarding this, and in his reply he said that there had been several > technical issues but most of them had been solved and almost ready to > merge into the port tree, and that he was planning to go forward > after the 8.2/7.4 releases (one or two weeks later from that time > stage) are out. However, more than a year has passed since then and > still nothing happened. I tried to contact him several times after > that (email, tweet, etc) but haven't heard anything back from him at > all. > > Is TeXLive really going to be merged into the FreeBSD ports tree as > Hiroki Sato mentioned previously? Or is this just a myth?? > > I am now thinking that this should be put into the "FreeBSD Project > ideas List" [http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage]. > > Regards, > Sam > Hey, Sam! I which TeXLive would be merged in FreeBSD ports. Romain is doing great job maintaining it. And it work, And it work now. In fact it works for more than a year. -- Aldis Berjoza
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