TeXLive distribution and macports

[Christopher Jones]

Hi,

Then I am not sure what you intention here is.

Note that MacPorts has a policy of not using external libraries, as far as possible (apart from obvious system ones) so if you aim is to have a port that basically allows something externally externally to pretend to be something MacPorts provides, then no this is strictly not allowed. See for instance

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs>

its the same deal as why we do not support using anything installed outside of MacPorts, from /usr/local

cheers Chris


> On 9 Sep 2018, at 3:46 pm, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> If I understand what you are asking correctly, you are asking how to
>> setup a port that does nothing other than depend on other ports, so
>> installing it drags in all the dependencies, in one go?
> 
> No, I want the opposite.  For example, I want to create a replacement
> for `texlive-basic' that does nothing except fulfilling the
> dependency.  This is, after installing this dummy `texlive-basic',
> `port' shall believe that `texlive-basic' is indeed installed.
> 
> Ditto for all other `texlive-*' ports.  Ideally, I would like to have
> all this stuff in a single file, to be automatically created from the
> actual list of `texlive-*' ports as in texlive-dummy-opensuse,
> cf. https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse/blob/ba0bc1e2f866c379f750046439b6f4e40725805f/Makefile#L61
> and following lines.
> 
>> If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts.  [...]
> 
> Thanks; I've already seen such meta-packages.  One of them is actually
> `texlive' itself :-)
> 
> 
>    Werner

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20180909/0f565647/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 1910 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20180909/0f565647/attachment.bin>