From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 16 00:00:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C728FE0 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D4125D for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.2]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M06kM-1UMUFl2MdI-00uGJV for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 02:00:21 +0200 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 May 2013 23:59:41 -0000 Received: from f049130218.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO mandree.no-ip.org) [78.49.130.218] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 16 May 2013 01:59:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Ez/pY8NWE79IyX394I8mLOWYly8I0CnBpfpIZn6 Sqr07apsr2WRIC Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B0023CEB7 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:51:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51941F70.2060201@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 01:51:12 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: teTeX and TeXLive References: <20130512.033617.598997229420881574.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130512.033617.598997229420881574.hrs@allbsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:23 -0000 Am 11.05.2013 20:36, schrieb Hiroki Sato: > Hello, > > As you already noticed, TeXLive ports have been imported and one can > choose teTeX or TeXLive while the default value for pre-compiled > packages is still teTeX. > > If you want to use TeXLive, please try to use the following knob: > > TEX_DEFAULT= texlive > > To do this, almost all of ports which use TeX will depend on TeXLive. > Although some ports which install a new TeX macro package may not > work because of incompatibility such as difference of directory > structure between the two, ones which use TeX for typesetting should > work fine. Ones to install macro packages which were non-standard in > teTeX but are included in TeXLive will be fixed or removed. > > Please test TeXLive and send your failure report to me. Once it is > confirmed that TEX_DEFAULT=texlive works, I will switch the default > value from tetex to texlive at some point. > > -- Hiroki > Hiroki, thanks for your work. I have been looking at the texlive-base and -texmf ports, prompted by a discussion on IRC involving "marino", Niclas Zeising and myself, and I must say that I am impressed - not to say scared - by the sheer size of the ports' distfiles (130 MB for base, 1.4 GB for -texmf), and have not yet taken the time to install and test the port. I suppose the -texmf port would be "all of texlive". Is there any optimization we can make to get the texlive material more manageable? People have expressed concerns about daily download limits (although that situation does not affect me personally currently). Are you aware of a list/overview/... that would explain the difference between the -base and the -texmf ports? Is there a way we can have only parts of the texlive system built and installed? If so, could you use any help of other people -- and if yes, what would that be? Thanks again and Best regards, Matthias