From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 09:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10882 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:13:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10774 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:11:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA27172; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 18:19:22 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199704021619.SAA27172@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Multiple versions of packages (was: Re: bin/3165...) To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 18:19:21 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, tege@nada.kth.se In-Reply-To: <9704021608.AA02684@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Apr 2, 97 05:07:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> Description: > > > A file `kpsetool' is required by `MakeTeXPK' but does not exist in > > the tex-3.14159.tgz package. > > I don't see any occurence of ``kpsetool'' in MakeTeXPK nor any program > with this name in the build directory. Are you sure to use the > MakeTeXPK script which comes with tex? I think I saw the above problem with the teTeX port as well (the latter also lacks symlinks for latex, tex and mf). BTW it is a bit confusing to have teTeX, tex-3.14159, latex2e, xdvi, dvips, etc. as separate packages when teTeX includes almost everything one needs. IMHO, at least for the precompiled packages, it would be better to have just one -- the most recent and complete one, teTeX in this case -- and just leave the option of ports for those with unusual needs. The same applies probably to other packages such as tk/tcl, ghostscript, gv/ghostview... in all cases where the most recent version is just a superset of the previous one and does not suffer suffer from what I call the "Netscape syndrome" (application size grows exponentially with major version numbers. And minor version numbers are never greater than 0). Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________