On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> wrote: > Seriously though, tlmgr is the name of the package and configuration > manager included in TeX Live. It operates completely separately from > any package manager the operating system may provide. I fail to see why > it was disabled. I think I will take the advice I was given and clear > TeXLive from my system and then download and install it from it from > "tug.org". I have been told it works perfectly and without any of the > BS that FreeBSD apparently decided to attach to it. Again, if it wasn't > broke, why did they feel the need to fix it? Are we sure that FreeBSD > doesn't work for the government? > > --
Have you used the freebsd-texlive ports? https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ For a good while, Romain Tartiere has provided these ports which took care of many complicated things that had not been done natively in FreeBSD. > Again, if it wasn't > broke, why did they feel the need to fix it? They* never fixed it, up till recently, texlive has officially been added to the FreeBSD ports: root@grullahighschool:~ # cat /usr/ports/UPDATING | grep 'texlive' Specifying TEX_DEFAULT=texlive, almost all of ports which use TeX The directory layout of them is as follows. Please use print/texlive-full - print/texlive-full: meta port to install all of the TeXLive components - print/texlive-base: binary programs in TeXLive - print/texlive-texmf: macro and font data in TeXLive - print/texlive-infra: tlmgr dependency (Perl modules) 20130511: AFFECTS: users of TeX AUTHOR: h...@freebsd.org One can now choose TeXLive or teTeX by using TEX_DEFAULT. Specifying TEX_DEFAULT=texlive, almost all of ports which use TeX will install and depend on TeXLive-based ones. Note that the default value is still "tetex" and the two cannot coexist. You need to remove all of the TeX-related packages based on teTeX to try TeXLive. 20130506: AFFECTS: users of TeX AUTHOR: h...@freebsd.org TeXLive ports have been imported. Although most of ports still depend on teTeX at this moment, they will be converted to use TeXLive. The directory layout of them is as follows. Please use print/texlive-full if you are not familiar with how each component works. Finer-grained ports will be added (specifically, meta ports for smaller installation and so on). Note that the full installation needs around 3GB of disk space. teTeX-based ports and TeXLive are mutually exclusive. This means TeXLive ports cannot be installed when teTeX is already installed. You need to remove all of the TeX-related packages based on teTeX to try TeXLive. Migration procedure will be announced when conversion of the port dependency is completed. * Meta port - print/texlive-full: meta port to install all of the TeXLive components * Libraries - devel/tex-kpathsea: kpathsea library - devel/tex-web2c: WEB2C toolchain and TeX engines - print/tex-ptexenc: character code conversion library for pTeX * Base part of the TeXLive - print/texlive-base: binary programs in TeXLive - print/texlive-texmf: macro and font data in TeXLive - print/texlive-infra: tlmgr dependency (Perl modules) - print/tex-formats: * TeX Formats - print/tex-formats: TeX, LaTeX, PDFTeX, AMSTeX, ConTeXT, CSLaTeX, EplainTeX, METAFONT, MLTeX, PDFTeX, TeXsis - print/tex-aleph: Aleph/Lambda - print/tex-xetex: XeTeX - print/tex-luatex: LuaTeX - print/tex-jadetex: JadeTeX - print/tex-xmltex: XMLTeX - japanese/tex-ptex: pTeX * DVI ware - print/tex-xdvik: XDvi It took a BIG WHILE to get texlive onboard natively on official FreeBSD ports. TeTeX has been depracated since 2006 and now it is there, but people are never happy. > Are we sure that FreeBSD > doesn't work for the government? Which government? I hope not the U.S. government which is doing things backwards and thinking on their feet instead of their brains and not respecting * Best Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
