X windows and applications advice

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 22, 2014, at 01:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On May 21, 2014, at 05:47, James Griffin wrote:
>> 
>>> The macports install is pulling in texlive but I've already got mactex installed so not sure why it needs to do that. I suppose I could just stick with the macports texlive instead of the tug.org package.
>> 
>> Usually MacPorts wants to use its own dependencies, instead of non-MacPorts versions of things you may already have installed. MacTeX is an exception to this rule. So there are two possibilities:
>> 
>> 1. One of the ports you're trying to install needs TeX, cannot use MacTex, and therefore the dependency is declared to enforce MacPorts TeX Live (as a port: style dependency)
>> 
>> 2. One of the ports you're trying to install needs TeX, could use MacTeX, but the dependency is declared incorrectly to require MacPorts TeX Live; in this case, the dependency should be changed (from a port: style dependency to a bin: style dependency)
> 
> What is the correct dependency specification?

bin:x:y

where

x is the name of a binary the port uses

and

y is the name of a port that provides that binary.