From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 22 10:45:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3D837B416; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:45:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.166]) by math.missouri.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1MIjIu50663; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:45:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <3C7691BE.51665DCB@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:45:18 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, jmz@freebsd.org, Ross Lippert Subject: latex, tex, dvips, xdvi ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear All, I am wondering why we still have the tex, latex, dvips, xdvi (and maybe other such ports) in the ports. They have not been updating for a long time, and they are all replaced by the single teTeX port. The problem is that many people who are new to FreeBSD install latex without realising that the port teTeX is the better way to go. (For example, the source code for the dvips port seems to be no longer available.) If there are good reasons to keep this port (for some backwards compatibility reasons) then we should add a note to the pkg-descr files suggesting that the user use teTeX if possible. Otherwise, how about completely removing these ports. I should also add that the tex/latex ports are incompatible with the teTeX port. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message