Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 22:45:37 +1200 From: Sam Lin <sam.lin4ml@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - FreeBSD project idea Message-ID: <CACsYpVMrR1aDDM5k9t8c%2BLRdnEL5yR761L7D6er0gM=1F9i4ww@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi FreeBSD fellows, Those who are using LaTeX on FreeBSD must know that tetex has been discontinued years ago and that TeXLive is now recommended, however TeXLive has never been merged in the ports tree on FreeBSD and that tetex is still used on FreeBSD ports. Although there have been some "customized" work so that FreeBSD users can install and use TeXLive on FreeBSD machine (for example, http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/wiki/Installing), this is quite confusing and may still cause conflict on the system side when using or maintaining it. There has also been years of gossips that a Japanese developer Hiroki Sato (hrs@freebsd) has been working on this matter for the last years and therefore the FreeBSD admin panel don't want anyone else to work on this and merge it into the ports tree. I actually contacted Hiroki Sato in the beginning of last year (2011) regarding this, and in his reply he said that there had been several technical issues but most of them had been solved and almost ready to merge into the port tree, and that he was planning to go forward after the 8.2/7.4 releases (one or two weeks later from that time stage) are out. However, more than a year has passed since then and still nothing happened. I tried to contact him several times after that (email, tweet, etc) but haven't heard anything back from him at all. Is TeXLive really going to be merged into the FreeBSD ports tree as Hiroki Sato mentioned previously? Or is this just a myth?? I am now thinking that this should be put into the "FreeBSD Project ideas List" [http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage]. Regards, Sam
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