creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

[Faisal Moledina]

Hey Dan,

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> So, good timing on this request since we will be updating to TeXLive
> 2010 soon and can roll this into that change.
>
> It may also tie in nicely with something else I was considering doing
> with the texlive ports. Currently texlive-bin builds all the binaries
> for everything and installs them into $prefix/bin. Unfortunately, they
> aren't usable without the corresponding texmf packages, e.g.
> texlive-xetex for xetex. Obviously this can be confusing.
>
> I was thinking of dealing with this by having texlive-bin install
> binaries into some "hidden" location, say somewhere in $prefix/libexec,
> then having the individual texlive ports symlink the appropriate
> binaries into $prefix/bin. If we do that we can easily put another
> symlink in place for the texbin directory.
>
> (A better approach still would be to only build the individual binaries
> as needed, but this would require some major changes to the texlive
> build infrastructure.)
>
>
> I will be on vacation for about two weeks, and planning on working on
> TL2010 once I get back. I've been putting off a bunch of changes to the
> port to combine them with the 2010 release, so if anyone has any other
> requests, feel free to send them my way.
>
> Dan

This all sounds great to me. Let me know if there's anything I can
help test for this. I'm curious as to why all the binaries are
currently in one port?

Faisal