MacTex vs MacPorts
Keith J. Schultz
keithjschultz at web.de
Sat Oct 1 02:04:29 PDT 2011
Hi All, Sam,
I a little something as a important side note.
MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file
of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not
remember which. Of course It may not work anymore.
At least I am happy with MacTeX.
regards
Keith.
Am 01.10.2011 um 10:03 schrieb Dan Ports:
> MacTeX and MacPorts are, for the most part, going to install the same
> version of the same TeX Live software, so it largely comes down to
> which package manager you'd like to use.
>
> The major differences are:
> - MacTeX includes the entire distribution (which makes it pretty
> large). The texlive metaport, by default, installs the most commonly
> used packages. The others can be installed from separate ports, or
> by installing texlive +full
>
> - MacTeX includes its own package manager that can install pre-release
> versions. Our texlive ports install the latest release version, and
> mostly only get bug-fix updates between releases.
>
> - if you install via MacPorts, MacPorts can keep track of your
> installation. Besides meaning you can update your TeX installation
> the same way you update your other ports, it also means that it can
> be used to satisfy dependencies for other ports. It can also install
> additional texlive packages as needed for dependencies.
>
> In years past, our texlive ports were sometimes significantly out of
> date. That's not really an issue nowadays; TeX Live 2011 was available
> in ports a week or so after its release.
>
> Dan
>
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> Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/
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