Installing asymptote

[Murray Eisenberg]

Question: Can I install the asymptote port without having the automatic 
installation of its dependency texlive?

I already have the complete texlive installed directly, without 
MacPorts, using the MacTeX distribution. I want to keep the latter, and 
I certainly don't want to have yet another texlive installation.

Can this be done by some edit in the asymptote Portfile to eliminate 
mention of that dependency?

After the edit, when I run "sudo port install asymptote", will my 
pre-existing installation of texlive be found? (Note that the texlive 
files are in the usual locations.)

Reason for question: Given that I already had texlive installed (but not 
through MacPorts), I tried installing the asymptote binary obtained 
directly from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/. But when I run the xasy 
command, I get a pop-up saying that the PIL (Python Imaging Library) 
Imaging-1.1.7 is required. And trying to install PIL leads to a further 
chain of dependencies which seems like more trouble than should be 
necessary.

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