On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:19:13 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > If you know of another tex project where teTeX fails, > > please send me the details. I'm keen to patch > > teTeX as far as possible with no major > > changes to TDS, i.e. just adding or updating > > a package. > > If TeXlive is (or becomes) "the LaTeX" (obsoleting teTeX), > there should be a proper integration with the ports system, > e. g. downloading the ISO and running the install scripts > when you do "make install", and even pkg_add should be > possible. > > Furthermore, there should be a way to define dependencies > correctly, e. g. if you've already installed TeXlive, there's > no obvious reason to also install teTeX - except some ports > define it as a dependency. So maybe there could be a switch > to define an override or a preference, e. g. in /etc/make.conf > in a form of LATEX=TEXLIVE or LATEX=TETEX (with a reasonable > default, maybe really =TEXLIVE), and ports depending on > "some LaTeX" should honor this preference. > > Even with our endless hard disks, some users do not see it > as "good practice" to install two functionally nearly > identical software packages. :-) > > I'm writing this as a long-term teTeX user.
What I suggested does not in any way interfere with any ongoing work to bring texlive into ports. As long as texlive is not in ports, patching teTeX is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
