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From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Subject: Re: teTeX/TeXLive: powerdot still missing ...
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:03:01PM +0000, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Still using teTeX, but as we all know, development has been canceld by  
> Thomas Esser. I'm looking for a working 'powerdot' which is part of  
> TeXLive now, but there is no TeXLive-port available for FreeBSD.  
> Searching for that matter brings up some informations released a year  
> ago and I'm wondering about the fact that there is no support for 
> FreeBSD.
> Is there a workaround or 'master plan' how to bring TeXLive to a FreeBSD  
> bx in a clean way? Can TeXLive coexists with teTeX.
>
Not about porting TeXLive to FreeBSD actually.
After a quick look at 'powerdot' class I can suggest you using 'beamer'
as a workaround. It is in the teTeX.
Porting of TeXLive is a todo anyway, I think.

Alexey.