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From: Torsten Schneider <fbsd-bug@tschneider.org>
Subject: Re: ports/47138: ports/latex cannot be installed
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The following reply was made to PR ports/47138; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Torsten Schneider <fbsd-bug@tschneider.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/47138: ports/latex cannot be installed
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:50:38 +0100

 >>>Number:         47138
 >>>Category:       ports
 >>>Synopsis:       ports/latex cannot be installed
        
 >Why don't you just install teTeX, which contains latex and all the other
 >goodies. This is an obsolete port for an obsolete TeX distribution.
 
 So my next question is: Why does it exist? Nobody needs a port which
 does not work at all and which is considered as obsolete.
 
 Does it only exist to increase the number of existing ports?
 
 
 Torsten
 

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