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From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:15:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: USE_TEX question
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On 9 May 2013 18:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
> So I have a port, math/sage, which now contains in Makefile the line
> USE_TEX=        tetex
>
> I have intalled the texlive ports.  So now if I try to install math/sage, it
> gives me error messages about CONFLICTS, which I think arise from the fact
> that math/sage thinks that it has to first install tetex, and this conflict
> with various texlive ports.
>
> But, math/sage is TEX agnostic.  It doesn't care whether it is tetex or
> texlive that is installed.  All it really wants to know is if there is a
> useable latex in PATH.
>
> It would be nice if there was a USE_TEX=yes option, or something like that,
> which I could put into the math/sage port.

USE_TEX=${TEX_DEFAULT} should work fine-- have you tried that?

Chris