I have gotten the build and run depends probably right. But it has a Makefile.PL that asks questions about the locations of files that texlive_base installs are at. The questions have all the right answers (but that could change later upstream?)
And texlive could change thoses locations later anyway. What is the preferred way to deal with a script asking for file locations? Patch the Makefile.PL? Feed it the answers? What is another port that deals with this, I'll look at it. Chris Bennett