MacTex vs MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 1, 2011, at 07:53, Sam Kuper wrote:

> On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de> wrote:
>> (Snip)
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks Keith. Is the change you referred to described here:
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/multipletexdistributions.html ? Or did you
> find that a different change worked better?

If you want MacTex software to be able to satisfy MacPorts TeX dependencies, you can add /usr/texbin to binpath in macports.conf. Otherwise if you install ports that require TeX, they'll install the requisite MacPorts TeX ports.