[MacPorts] #25203: should have a tex metaport

[MacPorts]

#25203: should have a tex metaport
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 Reporter:  dports@…             |       Owner:  dports@…           
     Type:  request              |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                     
Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.9.0              
 Keywords:                       |        Port:  tex                
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 We should have a tex metaport that ports can depend on if they need some
 TeX distribution installed, but not any particular one.

 It should have variants for TeX Live, MacTeX, and pTeX. texlive should be
 the default variant unless one of the others is already installed (keeping
 in mind that MacTeX installs into /usr/texbin).

 Possibly for the mactex variant it should symlink appropriate binaries
 from /usr/texbin/bin into $prefix/bin?

 Most ports that now depend on texlive should be changed to point to this
 metaport instead (unless they really require texlive specifically)

 Besides providing an option for people who want to use MacTeX, this could
 save us a lot of pain if we want to add a new TeX distribution option (as
 when texlive replaced tetex).

 Will work on this once texlive 2009 is in.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25203>
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