[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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