Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-14 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Andrea D'Amore : On 09/set/09, at 09:14, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I meant a meta-port that would ensure either the MacPorts texlive port or an external TeX is installed. I understood it but I don't really know what binaries does a latex installation rely on, I was asking for

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 09/set/09, at 09:14, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I meant a meta-port that would ensure either the MacPorts texlive port or an external TeX is installed. I understood it but I don't really know what binaries does a latex installation rely on, I was asking for someone with a more in-depth

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-09 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 06/set/09, at 22:28, Ryan Schmidt wrote: An alternate solution could be to write a tex meta-port that would do this. Then we would update every single port that depends on texlive to depend on that metaport instead. Something like: tex-externalMetaport that relies on binary TeX

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 9, 2009, at 02:11, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On 06/set/09, at 22:28, Ryan Schmidt wrote: An alternate solution could be to write a tex meta-port that would do this. Then we would update every single port that depends on texlive to depend on that metaport instead. Something like:

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-06 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 04/set/09, at 11:04, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Note that the debian texlive package is also still 2007. iirc this is due to TeXLive 2008 having its own file manager, tlmgr, and that could conflict with Debian packaging system. How do Macports cope with ports that have their own packaging

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 6, 2009, at 09:56, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On 04/set/09, at 11:04, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Note that the debian texlive package is also still 2007. iirc this is due to TeXLive 2008 having its own file manager, tlmgr, and that could conflict with Debian packaging system. How do

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-04 Thread Travis Briggs
On that note, what is the state of the MacPorts TeX ports? FWIW, I just installed texlive in MacPorts prior to compiling GNU Lilypond from source. Lilypond heavily relies on metafont for its custom music notation fonts. Everything is working correctly at the moment for me. -Travis On Thu, Sep

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-04 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Dan Ports : On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Because we want to allow MacTeX installed outside of MacPorts to satisfy the dependency. This is an exception to the usual rule, because TeX is hard to build and the MacPorts TeX ports tend to lag far

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 4, 2009, at 06:32, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Note that there is yet another solution which is install precompiled binaries as they come with mactex instead of compiling as texlive_base does. Problem is, it installs in /usr/texbin and is probably not flexible about that. These kinds of

TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-03 Thread Dan Ports
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Because we want to allow MacTeX installed outside of MacPorts to satisfy the dependency. This is an exception to the usual rule, because TeX is hard to build and the MacPorts TeX ports tend to lag far behind TeX releases. And