Using MacTeX/TeXLive instead of MacPorts tex ports

[Chris Jones]

> On 30 Jun 2019, at 3:11 pm, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have the complete MacTeX 2019 installed, which includes TeXLive 2019, and its tex-related binaries are first on my PATH.
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> Some MacPorts ports use various tex binaries and libraries, wither during build or runtime. So when I installed those, automatically the requisite MacPorts tex-related ports were installed, too. This is the case, for example, with octave (uses texinfo, texlive-basic, texlive-latex, texlive-fonts-recommended
> 
> Hence I now have two separate TeX distributions installed, which seems utterly wasteful. The one I want to keep is MacTeX/TeXLive.
> 
> Can the various Macports tex ports be uninstalled without breaking other, currently installed ports using them? And without intefering with rebuilding those tex-using MacPorts 

In general, no, you cannot do this. Macports generally always prefers to install and use its own dependencies, for the reasons outlined in

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

If you try and uninstall the dependencies required by, for instance, octave, you will break things. 

Chris



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