(Disclaimer: Although I always give my comments to discussions of this
subject, I am *not* whining. I myself do not need a system-te{tex,xlive}
package, I am perfectly happy with Fink's texlive, which I use on a
daily basis. It even has xetex with microtype:
% dpkg -S microtype.sty
texlive-texmf: /sw/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.sty
)
On 11/09/11 13:58, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 9/11/11 7:00 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>> Am 11.09.2011 um 04:24 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
>>
>>> You appear to relying on local modifications to your Fink tree
>>> to find a TeXLive version which was installed by other means
>>> than Fink, and that isn't supported by the project.
>>
>> TeX Live or MacTeX are standards. There is no need to install an
>> extra TeX distribution, as for example MacPorts is doing.
>>
>
> It used to be the case that an upstream TeX packager (Wierda) would
> change stuff with each release and the change would break our
> system-tetex placeholder.
> Based on that, it was decidided _not_ to support third-party TeX
> distributions.
I think it is more accurate to say that the system-tetex maintainer
decided not to update his package any longer, for good reasons at the
time, but no longer relevant since at least 3 years.
> We have TeX Live 2010. It's older, but works.
>
>> My workaround is to create sym-links in /usr/local/teTeX/bin:
This is not a good idea. It would be better to correct the Fink package
so as to avoid the need of hacking things outside Fink.
There exists a system-texlive-2010 package on the submission tracker
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3191785&group_id=17203&atid=414256>
If there is positive feedback about this (and once some obvious flaws
are corrected), I don't see any reason not to accept this into Fink.
>> total 16 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39 11 Sep 12:36
>> universal-darwin -> ../../texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36 11 Sep 12:36 x86_64-darwin ->
>> ../../texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin
>>
>> This seemed to have worked on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (PPC), where the
>> sym-links pointed to TeX Line 2008 (I had "compacted" the old
>> distributions by using hard links for identical files, which saved
>> many GB).
Of course, if there was a Fink system-texlive package, it would only
support "official", non-hacked, versions of TeXlive or MacTeX.
>> i system-tetex 20071003-2 Placeholder package for manually
>> installed teTeX, gwTeX, or TeX Live p tetex-base [virtual
>> package] p tetex-macosx [virtual package] p tetex-texmf
>> [virtual
>> package]
Where did you get this from? Could you try the system-texlive-2010
package and compare it with your system-tetex package?
--
Martin
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