<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jun2019, at 2:54 PM, Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On 30 Jun 2019, at 3:11 pm, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">I have the complete MacTeX 2019 installed, which includes TeXLive 2019, and its tex-related binaries are first on my PATH.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Some MacPorts ports use various tex binaries and libraries, wither during build or runtime. So when I installed those, automatically the requisite MacPorts tex-related ports were installed, too. This is the case, for example, with octave (uses texinfo, texlive-basic, texlive-latex, texlive-fonts-recommended</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Hence I now have two separate TeX distributions installed, which seems utterly wasteful. The one I want to keep is MacTeX/TeXLive.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Can the various Macports tex ports be uninstalled without breaking other, currently installed ports using them? And without intefering with rebuilding those tex-using MacPorts </span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In general, no, you cannot do this. Macports generally always prefers to install and use its own dependencies, for the reasons outlined in</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you try and uninstall the dependencies required by, for instance, octave, you will break things. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>In the case of tex, the MacPorts are from texlive, and texlive as installed by MacTeX has no /lib directory — just a /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin (to which the automatically created /Library/TeX/texbin provides a symlink) and all the usual tex files in the /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist, etc. trees. concerning fonts, docs, etc.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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