From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 26 10:42:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584331065672 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 10:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam.lin4ml@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80FE8FC08 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 10:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbon10 with SMTP id n10so1568322lbo.13 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 03:42:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=9BDJuLGRYUENA7YKvCa09oVzTiYmA19+4CmZnAeXtxE=; b=EIRs3LMb0VSfwUDacalx14Yud0lNpN+U4Zn4zIrSoxygwTP31mfx+9f+ypHETso1OY pQGe45SPaDfomIyfbasLPaDNgul4Ua0b5UOLA3dyzDVE2WE8fBVVgRInb+duSVhfLPo3 +ikYSLZ2GZCkq/hK6K/v67OZbreJDGMJSP46DTED0e0vma7Ueut80JROQfXR5dl/hHZ4 4nsIEykWmHZLUFAOpm/nb6ICDfxRrSwZbMq7o4elYJSgxMptI8+jIAhBrKKeR4EQMsk/ Hze79I6/CzQoGMbJ6P3Ju1FfJmHRjGO+CJPvk2ziyYruM4n0wmxTrQhQAxzIrb0buQcU ncRg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.23.196 with SMTP id o4mr899569lbf.49.1338028970698; Sat, 26 May 2012 03:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.127.102 with HTTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 03:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 22:42:50 +1200 Message-ID: From: Sam Lin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - is this going to happen or not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:42:52 -0000 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