[MacPorts] #53202: kde4-kile wants to install macports texlive even though MacTex texlive is installed

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#53202: kde4-kile wants to install macports texlive even though MacTex texlive is
installed
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  Reporter:  fusionfan           |      Owner:  NicosPavlov
      Type:  defect              |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal              |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports               |    Version:
Resolution:                      |   Keywords:
      Port:  kde4-kile, texlive  |
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Comment (by NicosPavlov):

 Hi, I take your comments not in the order you wrote them to answer to
 them, as my answer can be made more logical in that way.

 Replying to [comment:9 fusionfan]:
 > Thank you for looking into the issue.
 > I have explicitly added  /Library/TeX/texbin to the macports binpath,
 which now reads as
 > {{{
 > binpath
 /Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 > }}}
 >
 > and just to be sure
 >
 > {{{
 > bash-4.4# which latex
 > /Library/TeX/texbin/latex
 > }}}

 Good. It is not directly related to the issue, but I would recommend to
 add your paths after Macports ones (i.e.
 /opt/local/bin:....:/Library/TeX/texbin). Adding paths is said to
 potentially lead to unintended behaviour, and the order you are using also
 potentially obfuscates Macports binaries. What matters in your case is to
 find tex binaries even if they are not in /opt/local/bin.

 > As for Kile working with MacTex: my installation predates my switch to
 MacTex. Therefore I have not installed the +mactex variant. I have
 probably changed the paths to binaries in the Kile configuration myself by
 hand, but it was a long time ago and I don't remember exactly. By looking
 at the portfile I have decided that the +mactex variant only changes these
 path settings, and since I have already done that, I deemed it unnecessary
 to reinstall that variant. [snip]

 You are absolutely right. So if you did it yourself, there is no need to
 use the variant. Also, your changes should be at user level, and should
 not be overwritten by an upgrade, although I am not 100% sure about that.

 > after doing this change to macports.conf, and rerunning
 >
 > {{{
 > port list rdepof:kde4-kile
 > }}}
 >
 > it now reports texlive as a dependency (it didn't before). Odd!
 [snip]
 >
 > Which makes it even more odd. It seems to me that whatever is collecting
 the dependencies for the ''port deps'' command is not the same as whatever
 is collecting dependencies for the upgrade. Any way to tell what the
 latter is? I would like to debug the issue but I just cannot figure out
 why macports still thinks that this is a dependency.
 >

 I am not sure about the use of rdepof, but please not that kde4-kile
 should list a dependency to texlive anyway. The point is that it is
 declared as a binary dependency, so that if Macports finds the binaries,
 it will not install the required ports.

 > I have attached the output of port -dy upgrade kdelibs4. Can somebody
 tell me why would an update of kdelibs4 want to install latex packages?

 It appears that you do not have libnunistring installed, which itself
 declared texlive as a port dependency. I changed it to a binary dependency
 (see comment above) which should avoid the forced installation of texlive.

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