creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

[Dan Ports]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 03:39:30PM -0400, Faisal Moledina wrote:
> 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?

I just implemented this and checked it in on my texlive 2010 branch.
You (and anyone else interested in TeX Live 2010) might want to follow
ticket #26430 for more information:
  http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26430

I'm not sure it's really ready for testing yet, but it should be pretty
close -- I'm using it to edit a paper now. 

As for why we have only one port for binaries, it's because texlive is
distributed as one monolithic source tarball, and its build scripts are
designed to build it all at once. Actually, it even includes the source
for all of the libraries it depends on, although we basically don't use
those. In general, I think it's more geared to use in a binary
distribution.

I'd love to see texlive-bin broken up into smaller ports someday but
that's not an easy task...

Dan

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