How remove port info but not installed files?

[Murray Eisenberg]

On 4/18/12 12:38 PM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> On 2012-04-18, Murray Eisenberg<murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> What's the simplest way to get rid of the macports files from texlive
>> and aysmpotote _WITHOUT_ disturbing the original files from the direct
>> TeXLive 2011 installation?
>
> First off, have you experienced any problems with this setup?
>
> Now, you probably don't need to remove anything. Aside from the space
> on disk, the two prefixes _should_ ignore each other. /usr/local can
> be a headache if other software tries to link to it instead of the
> MacPorts provided items, but I think you should be safe with the
> /usr/local/texlive prefix.
>
> If you want to keep asymptote, you'll need to keep the MacPorts
> provided texlive installation as well. You could probably hack around
> this by editing the asymptote Portfile so that it does not depend on
> texlive, but then you may also need to (re?)patch asymptote so that it
> links to /usr/local/texlive instead of /opt/local. This may be as
> simple as editing or adding a source path so asymptote knows where to
> look. In either case, this type of usage isn't exactly supported by
> MacPorts. You may find others who have performed similar hacks and
> some help there; I know requests often come up for help in using the
> system or 3rd party version of some library instead of the MacPorts
> version. These are usually met with varying degrees of success.
>
> With the current MacPorts design, you'd be best off uninstalling
> TexLive 2011 and using the MacPorts version. This is just for space
> savings though. Overall, I don't think there should be any
> compatibility issues in having both on your system. I think MacTex
> even includes an application for switching which texlive installation
> to use, and this includes support for selecting the MacPorts version.
>

Indeed, it's space I want to conserve on my relatively small SSD boot drive.

It's the original MacTeX TeXLive 2011 installation I want to keep -- and 
NOT the MacPorts version.

(Various reasons for that preference, including a very helpful GUI 
maintenance utility that's part of MacTeX.)

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