[MacPorts] #25203: should have a tex metaport
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Thu Sep 2 11:04:46 PDT 2010
#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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