[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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Comment(by adfernandes@…):

 I have a suggestion: there appear to be a couple of big packages (TeX is
 one, perhaps Qt4 is another) that users may want on their systems to be
 decoupled from MacPorts. Can there be a ''small'' list of "big apps" that
 MacPorts just knows about?

 For TeX specifically, MacTeX and TeXLive both install into `/usr/texbin`,
 and use symlinks to point that to whatever dir the actual install is in.
 So could MacPorts just check to see if `/usr/texbin` is present for TeX
 related ports?

 Kind-of hack-ish, yes... but the only alternatives that I see are either
 this or getting users to edit their `macports.conf` to uncomment the
 `PATH` variable and add `/usr/texbin`... or mistakenly have two copies of
 TeXLive.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25203#comment:3>
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