texlive dependencies - installing texlive when it didn't before (e.g. latex2html)

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-8-20 14:53 , John Owens wrote:
> John Owens <john_owens at ...> writes:
>>
>> I spent a while ~2 years ago fixing up a bunch of ports so that if someone
>> had MacTex installed, macports would not also install texlive. After a Snow
>> Leopard install, I'm a little puzzled. For example, latex2html:
> 
> OK, I found two issues, and will happily check them in, but would like
> confirmation they're the right thing to do.
> 
> The culprit: making docs in bibtex2html:
> 
> depends_build    port:ocaml port:hevea port:texlive-latex-extra
>                           port:texlive-latex-recommended
> 
> which I propose to change to bin:latex:texlive-latex-recommended.

That isn't correct: bin/latex is provided by texlive-latex, so anyone
who has that installed but not texlive-latex-recommended will get a
build failure. And even if they don't have a latex binary,
texlive-latex-extra won't be installed, again leading to failure.

- Josh