XeTeX depends on teTeX but I run TeXLive

[James Sumners]

Do you need to install XeTeX separately? According to [1] it is a
standard part of texLive. However, if you do need to install it, it
might be easiest to modify the port file to change the dependency.

Someone really needs to get a list of all packages that still depend
on teTeX and run a find, replace-all, on them. Having to change the
ports yourself every time you want to install something that depends
on TeX is getting old.

[1] -- http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm new to Mac OS and thus new to MacPorts. I use Leopard 10.5.2 and
>  MacPorts 1.6.0. Yesterday I installed TeXLive via MacPorts and today
>  I wanted to install XeTeX. But it depends on teTeX and I don't want
>  to also install teTeX (it's quite outdated and unmaintained since
>  May 2006). Can this be handled by MacPorts or do I have to install
>  tools depending on teTeX manually?
>
>  Regards
>  Christoph
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