From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 20:11:18 2007 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 7FBE216A419 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr) Received: from postfix2-g20.free.fr (postfix2-g20.free.fr [212.27.60.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025CD13C4A3 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by postfix2-g20.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8AE1D5CEB9 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:41:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48A93F618F; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:41:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (ron34-3-82-236-236-194.fbx.proxad.net [82.236.236.194]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A433F619E; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:41:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9T8kLui052725; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr) Received: (from michael@localhost) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id l9T8kKnl052724; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr) X-Authentication-Warning: Llea.celt.neu: michael set sender to michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr using -f To: Predrag Punosevac References: <4723CEFD.2040906@gmail.com> <20071027234110.GA47576@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4723EB0C.7080702@math.arizona.edu> <4724687A.5000107@gmail.com> <20071028111354.GA85025@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4724E14D.7010701@math.arizona.edu> <20071028222834.GA39510@slackbox.xs4all.nl> From: Predrag Punosevac Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20071028222834.GA39510@slackbox.xs4all.nl> (Roland Smith's message of "Sun\, 28 Oct 2007 23\:28\:34 +0100") Message-ID: <86fxzutijn.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Christian Walther , Frank Shute , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LaTeX oder teTeX 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, 29 Oct 2007 20:11:18 -0000 Roland Smith writes: > I've installed TeXLive 2007 to use /usr/local/texlive/2007 as its prefix > and data directory, and that works fine. Everything is contained > within that tree. It does not put things in /etc or /usr/local/etc if > you do this. What you do need to do after building the binaries is add > /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/-unknown-freebsd to the path > in /etc/login.conf. I am considering giving a try to TeXlive these days. I take the opportunity of this thread to ask you about your strategy to make the TeXlive system cohabit with ports that wants teTeX. Some ports want teTeX. If one installs both teTeX and TeXlive, one should arrange so that TeXlive's bin directory comes before teTeX's bin directory (/usr/local/bin), otherwise teTeX's binaries are used instead of TeXlive's and this is not what is wanted. Is this the way you did? The second question is about ports that install TeX related stuff (such as macro packages, like NOWEB do). I guess you edited texmf.cnf to let /usr/local/share/texmf-local appear in TEXMF trees. Am I right, and was this enough to let things run well? To consider more FreeBSD specific issues, I have read elsethread that some people are working on porting TeXlive to FreeBSD. When this (awesome) work will be done, FreeBSD users will have two options to install a TeX system from the ports: teTeX and TeXlive. These two systems provide similar service. In such a situation, how are managed the dependencies? How would a porter say ``This port run-depends on a TeX system, no matter which one it is''? --=20 Cheers, Micha=EBl