From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 10:13:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF04310656B1 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:13:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416338FC12 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QikpN-0007m2-Vb; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:13:40 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qikp0-0000nH-I1; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:13:06 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6IAD65g072049; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:13:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p6IAD60E072048; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:13:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:13:06 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20110718101306.GA72022@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Polytropon , Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <537F9F81-1353-4FA3-B8EF-EF99682F435E@gmail.com> <20110714160816.GA30155@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110715235610.GA70906@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110718091913.GA4092@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110718113822.32e63d86.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110718113822.32e63d86.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:13:47 -0000 On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:19:13 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > If you know of another tex project where teTeX fails, > > please send me the details. I'm keen to patch > > teTeX as far as possible with no major > > changes to TDS, i.e. just adding or updating > > a package. > > If TeXlive is (or becomes) "the LaTeX" (obsoleting teTeX), > there should be a proper integration with the ports system, > e. g. downloading the ISO and running the install scripts > when you do "make install", and even pkg_add should be > possible. > > Furthermore, there should be a way to define dependencies > correctly, e. g. if you've already installed TeXlive, there's > no obvious reason to also install teTeX - except some ports > define it as a dependency. So maybe there could be a switch > to define an override or a preference, e. g. in /etc/make.conf > in a form of LATEX=TEXLIVE or LATEX=TETEX (with a reasonable > default, maybe really =TEXLIVE), and ports depending on > "some LaTeX" should honor this preference. > > Even with our endless hard disks, some users do not see it > as "good practice" to install two functionally nearly > identical software packages. :-) > > I'm writing this as a long-term teTeX user. What I suggested does not in any way interfere with any ongoing work to bring texlive into ports. As long as texlive is not in ports, patching teTeX is useful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423