[MacPorts] #25203: should have a tex metaport

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#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 dports@…):

 I'm no longer particularly enthused about this idea. Part of the problem
 with supporting multiple tex distributions is that they're organized
 differently. MacTeX is divided into thousands of packages but installs
 them all by default. The texlive ports are divided into ~80 packages, with
 only the most common ones installed by default. pTeX is a single
 monolithic distribution, as was teTeX.

 I'm trying to get ports that need specific tex functionality to depend on
 the minimal package that fits that need. Some need only texlive-basic,
 others need texlive-latex, others need texlive-latex-recommended or
 texlive-pictures or texlive-htmlxml, etc. Depending on a port:tex would
 make this impossible.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/25203#comment:5>
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