[MacPorts] #12913: tetex is dead

[MacPorts]

#12913: tetex is dead
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  Reporter:  zach at tu-clausthal.de  |       Owner:  gwright at macports.org
      Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements   
 Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.5.0               
Resolution:                        |    Keywords:                      
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Comment (by josh+macports at root.id.au):

 Replying to [comment:4 Damien.Pollet at gmail.com]:
 > This package itself would be empty but it would ensure that there is
 either tetex or texlive or any other TeX port installed.

 This is almost what a dependency like path:${prefix}/bin/tex:texlive does.
 It will be fulfilled by any TeX distribution installed through MacPorts,
 and if none is installed, it will be fulfilled by installing texlive.

 > One of those ports could also be a placeholder for an external TeX
 distro and warn that you should know what you are doing if you install it.

 Such a port won't be accepted into the standard MacPorts distribution.
 Ports aren't meant to make use of the software that comes with OS X (with
 a very few exceptions like X11 and gcc), let alone user-installed
 packages. But, there's nothing stopping anyone from making themselves a
 local port that just places some symlinks under ${prefix} that point to an
 external TeX installation, if they really want to.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12913#comment:5>
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