From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 19:43:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273691065740 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE64A8FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id mBOJhiVt029392 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:43:45 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 164 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E058A2C7 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:43:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id CA7BA15; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:43:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:43:43 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20081224194343.GA37842@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:43:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/8798/Wed Dec 24 17:46:31 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail2.jussieu.fr with ID 495274F4.011 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 495274F4.011/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 495274F4.011 on jchkmail2.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.050 -> S=0.050 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Cc: Subject: Re: TeXLive X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:43:47 -0000 Romain Tartière wrote: > Well, I don't think of importing TeXLive into the FreeBSD ports tree as > a replacement of teTeX (sorry if that was unclear by what I meant by > "drop-in replacement"). I was just thinking about having both in the > ports tree, leaving existing dependencies untouched so that ports that > used to depend on teTeX still depend on it... TeXLive would only be > installed if the user explicitly want TeXLive instead of teTeX. I concur with that, as a TeX user since many years. For me teTeX is already overbloated as far as possible, particularly when some unconscious maintainer adds dependencies like cm-super which are perfectly non necessary, please don't impose on us abominations like TeXLive, leave that optional. -- Michel TALON