Hey Dan, On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Dan Ports <[email protected]> wrote: > So, good timing on this request since we will be updating to TeXLive > 2010 soon and can roll this into that change. > > It may also tie in nicely with something else I was considering doing > with the texlive ports. Currently texlive-bin builds all the binaries > for everything and installs them into $prefix/bin. Unfortunately, they > aren't usable without the corresponding texmf packages, e.g. > texlive-xetex for xetex. Obviously this can be confusing. > > I was thinking of dealing with this by having texlive-bin install > binaries into some "hidden" location, say somewhere in $prefix/libexec, > then having the individual texlive ports symlink the appropriate > binaries into $prefix/bin. If we do that we can easily put another > symlink in place for the texbin directory. > > (A better approach still would be to only build the individual binaries > as needed, but this would require some major changes to the texlive > build infrastructure.) > > > I will be on vacation for about two weeks, and planning on working on > TL2010 once I get back. I've been putting off a bunch of changes to the > port to combine them with the 2010 release, so if anyone has any other > requests, feel free to send them my way. > > Dan
This all sounds great to me. Let me know if there's anything I can help test for this. I'm curious as to why all the binaries are currently in one port? Faisal _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
