From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 15 19:16:02 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3C371B for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D459D2101 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r8FJ6K2h041155 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:06:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <5236052C.3070609@tundraware.com> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:06:20 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive References: <20130914142212.33376069@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <20130915190022.GB69292@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20130915190022.GB69292@slackbox.erewhon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (ozzie.tundraware.com [192.168.0.1]); Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:06:20 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: r8FJ6K2h041155 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:16:02 -0000 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/