On May 22, 2014, at 01:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On May 21, 2014, at 05:47, James Griffin wrote: >> >>> The macports install is pulling in texlive but I've already got mactex >>> installed so not sure why it needs to do that. I suppose I could just stick >>> with the macports texlive instead of the tug.org package. >> >> Usually MacPorts wants to use its own dependencies, instead of non-MacPorts >> versions of things you may already have installed. MacTeX is an exception to >> this rule. So there are two possibilities: >> >> 1. One of the ports you're trying to install needs TeX, cannot use MacTex, >> and therefore the dependency is declared to enforce MacPorts TeX Live (as a >> port: style dependency) >> >> 2. One of the ports you're trying to install needs TeX, could use MacTeX, >> but the dependency is declared incorrectly to require MacPorts TeX Live; in >> this case, the dependency should be changed (from a port: style dependency >> to a bin: style dependency) > > What is the correct dependency specification?
bin:x:y where x is the name of a binary the port uses and y is the name of a port that provides that binary. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
