Charlie Sharpsteen wrote: > I have been using macports to install programs that have been a little > testy to compile myself and have been very satisfied so far. However, I > just installed latex2rtf and port downloads and installed a rather large > number of packages including some of the GNU toolchain, perl, and an > outdated tex-live distribution.
texlive follows the OpenBSD texlive release and that is still at version 2007. So it is the latest and greatest we can get without creating many packages ourselves. > Much of this all ready exists on my computer and I am a little concerned > about managing conflicts. That's exactly the point. As MacPorts installs everything to /opt/local, there won't be any conflicts with system provided libraries. > Is there any way to have port preferentially > link against libraries outside of /opt/local instead of downloading > redundant copies? As MacPorts installs newer versions in most cases, I would not see this as redundant. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
