latex packages and ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:23, Thomas Weiss wrote:

> Why don't you use the TeX-Live Manager (http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html) to install missing packages after the basic installation? It is included in texlive 2009 and there is a graphical interface for the mac (http://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/)

I don't know if that would work, but if it did, then it would seem to be installing software into the MacPorts prefix without using MacPorts, which will confuse MacPorts later so I don't recommend that.