X windows and applications advice

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 22, 2014, at 03:27, Clemens Lang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That doesn't make MacPorts accept MacTeX as dependency, unless you
> edit the binpath variable in your macports.conf and add the correct
> path for MacTeX (iirc that was /usr/mactex/bin or something?).
> 
> For obvious reasons if MacTeX installs into /usr/local/bin (which I
> doubt it does, but just for future reference and similar endeavors)
> you should avoid doing that.

Yes, the user also has to edit binpath to include /usr/texbin, if the user wants programs there to satisfy dependencies.