Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:21:29 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - FreeBSD project idea Message-ID: <201206181521.33409.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120617200415.GA11652@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <CACsYpVMrR1aDDM5k9t8c%2BLRdnEL5yR761L7D6er0gM=1F9i4ww@mail.gmail.com> <4FDE2EE9.5020602@janh.de> <20120617200415.GA11652@zim.MIT.EDU>
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--nextPart12887154.MV0TCf0HVE Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Summary of below. I have started an effort to get TeXLive into the FreeBSD= =20 ports. See github.com/DragonSA/texlive for details. Volunteers welcome. =20 On Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:04:15 David Schultz wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > > Even with a knob instead of checking if print/texlive-core is installed, > > it would put a lot of mess into the ports tree. Some maintainers will > > not agree to introduce these conditions, if there is no general > > agreement that we want to transition to TeXLive that way. teTeX hasn't been updated since 2006 and the maintainer of teTeX has=20 discontinued development and recommends using TeXLive. Undoubtably updatin= g=20 the TeXLive will break some things but the same could be said about teTeX i= f=20 an update existed. =20 Are there any people who don't want to migrate to TeXLive? > > As far as I remember, both romain@ and hrs@ have stated that they do not > > want both teTeX and TeXLive in the tree concurrently. Looking through the list of bundled packages for TeXLive it will be quite=20 difficult to have both TeXLive and teTeX in the tree concurrently. There a= re=20 a group of "support" ports, such as xdvik and ptex that require special=20 integration into either teTeX or TeXLive. To switch between either will=20 require reinstalling many dependencies, not just the TeXLive or teTeX ports= =2E =20 With that said, it is not impossible nor, I think, will it impose a big=20 maintenance burden. =20 =20 > In that case, it sounds like using TeXLive in FreeBSD will be a > bit tricky until someone steps in and does all the work required > for integration. Unfortunately I'm a bit time-constrained for the > next few months, but I do use TeXLive and would be happy to test > any proposed patches. I have started working on just this, getting TeXLive into FreeBSD ports. I= t=20 is still early days and I have only two monolithic ports, with texlive-base= =20 requiring lots of love. =20 I believe my work is in a state ready for initial testing (verifying the=20 ports) and some feedback. Some open questions are: - how to split texlive-texmf (OpenBSD has an approach) - how to handle bundled software that has existing (sometimes outdated) po= rts Also, I am looking for a sponsor: someone who will commit the ports when th= ey=20 are ready, and to provide feedback so that the ports may get to a ready sta= te. =20 =46or details about the project, and to get the ports, please see:=20 github.com/DragonSA/texlive Regards P.S. I am not subscribed to freebsd-ports@ so please CC me. =20 --nextPart12887154.MV0TCf0HVE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk/fK10ACgkQUaaFgP9pFrL/KQCeLCB/mjAcq11kDHrZKubxyDep /jUAnREPD1d2DIG7fvXIulNMNIfBNCSl =r2yE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12887154.MV0TCf0HVE--
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