[MacPorts] #20939: rubber: please update depends_run
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#20939: rubber: please update depends_run
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Reporter: john_owens@… | Owner: milosh@…
Type: request | Status: closed
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords:
Port: rubber |
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Comment(by john_owens@…):
Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign@…]:
> Replying to [comment:3 john_owens@…]:
> > Absolutely the trend in ports has been toward using bin:binary:texlive
so that MacTeX can be used.
> I am no longer certain what the trend is or what was agreed upon. It has
been discussed extensively in #12913 and also
[http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-
dev/2008-January/004077.html on the mailing list]. All I know is the ports
that currently depend on texlive do so in different ways, and it would be
good to change them all to one common way. What that way is, I don't know.
Ryan, you told me in an email on 6 Dec 2008 that "It seems like a
consensus was reached that the dependencies should be changed to
bin:something:texlive so that adding /usr/texbin to the binpath would
allow things to work." I think this is the right thing to do. texlive
ports have consistently lagged behind MacTeX distributions, and the
ability to selfupdate within MacTeX is really an enormously important
feature that just isn't supported within the macports structure today. Of
course we should continue to keep a texlive port to keep everything self-
contained within macports, especially for users who aren't using TeX
directly, but it seems to me that there's zero downside to using
bin:binary:texlive, which makes both macports-texlive users happy AND
makes MacTeX users happy.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20939#comment:5>
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