<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 30 Jun 2019, at 3:11 pm, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>I have the complete MacTeX 2019 installed, which includes TeXLive 2019, and its tex-related binaries are first on my PATH.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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><span></span><br><span>Hence I now have two separate TeX distributions installed, which seems utterly wasteful. The one I want to keep is MacTeX/TeXLive.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you try and uninstall the dependencies required by, for instance, octave, you will break things. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span>—-</span><br><span>Murray Eisenberg <a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a></span><br><span>503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240</span><br><span>Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>