On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Vadim Zhukov wrote:

> Please, don't remove patches that allow to avoid texlive dependency.
> They do help heavily in bulk builds. The best would be to find way to
> be able do it either way - by picking up automatically during
> configure state, or forcing state with configure switches/environment.
> If that's too hard or won't be accepted upstream, then those patches
> should stay in.

Also, R requires the inconsolata.sty package[1] to build the PDF
manuals, which is not in texlive_base:

<dcoppa@t420:/usr/ports/print/texlive>$ grep -r inconsolata.sty * 
texmf/pkg/PLIST-full:share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/inconsolata/inconsolata.sty

So you'd need a build dependency on the full TeXLive package: simply
impractical.

[1] checking for tex... /usr/local/bin/tex
checking for pdftex... /usr/local/bin/pdftex
checking for pdflatex... /usr/local/bin/pdflatex
checking for makeindex... /usr/local/bin/makeindex
checking for makeinfo... /usr/bin/makeinfo
checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes
checking for ginstall-info... no
checking for install-info... /usr/bin/install-info
checking for texi2dvi... /usr/bin/texi2dvi
checking for kpsewhich... /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich
checking for latex inconsolata package... missing
configure: WARNING: neither inconsolata.sty nor zi4.sty found: PDF vignettes 
and package manuals will not be rendered optimally

Ciao!
David

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