Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:06:20 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive Message-ID: <5236052C.3070609@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20130915190022.GB69292@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20130914142212.33376069@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <20130915190022.GB69292@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On 09/15/2013 02:00 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > duplication of effort). I installed TeXLive using its own installer long > before it was present in the ports tree. Since TeXLive is very complete and > self-contained, I don't have other ports that depend on TeX. +1 My TeX dependency and maintenance problems all but disappeared when I moved to the freestanding TeXLive installation. I run a nightly cron job to get the latest updates via tlmgr and it works like a charm. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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