When I tried to do something like this I was shot down; told that the fink core team was reconsidering the whole issue of "system-" packages, and that, specifically, system-texlive was NOT going to happen. I then started an effort to package TeX Live in such a way as to make it fink-friendly. This failed miserably because TeX Live is (apparently) not built in a straightforward way, and the TeX Live people don't make it easy to get the tools with which they build it. If any of the above has changed I would love to see it. It is totally ridiculous that the only TeX in Fink is tetex, which is ancient and dead.
Peace - John On May 18, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Max Horn wrote: > > | This way, we would be able to go forwards with TeX support, leaving > | all roads: I.e. we'd be able to continue our tetex package, OR add a > | TeXLive package one day, OR add yet another TeX distro one day. > People > | who want MacTeX could use it for lots of stuff which only needs > to run > | latex (like doxygen or latexmk, and others). Packagers could declare > | the pkg dependencies with more detail. > | > | > | What do you think? > > I think it's a fine idea; the reason something like this hasn't > happened > is the people able to make changes to fink don't know anything about > TeX, and vice-versa, so we were never able to find anyone who could > really step up and *understand* it end-to-end. > > As long as someone's willing to own it (as opposed to just maintaining > it) we might as well clean up the tex mess... > > - -- > Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick > Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development > http://www.racoonfink.com/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIMF9BUu+jZtP2Zf4RAtoWAJ0R1fsAurujXWcesMymMEgVXrEA2gCgnJS4 > UdfFVXMn9ApfrP3JyeDMLE0= > =ZliI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
