LaTeXML Portfile issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 6, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 2014, at 6:15 AM, Bruce Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to draw attention to the ticket
>>>   https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44220
>>> where there are a couple of issues to improve
>>> the Portfile.
>>> 
>>> Basically, during installation, I'd like to
>>> be able to detect whether there is _any_
>>> TeX installation available (whether MacPort's
>>> own texlive, or MacTeX or _any_ other TeX).
>>> This allows LaTeXML to install it's own style
>>> files into the TeX distribution.  I attempted
>>> to do this by looking for "kpsewhich",
>>> but it turns out that the user's $PATH is not
>>> visible within port.  Is there any approved
>>> way to do this?
>> 
>> Users who wish to use MacTeX instead of MacPorts TeXlive are expected to install MacTeX manually and add /usr/texbin/bin to binpath in macports.conf.
> 
> It's one thing to *find* external TeX distribution. It's another to
> *install files* there.

Totally agree, of course.