From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 26 14:41:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4CE106566B for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:41:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Received: from anthesphoria.net (anthesphoria.net [204.109.61.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCAD8FC14 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 14:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krypta.anthesphoria.net (anthesphoria.net [204.109.61.206]) by anthesphoria.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4QEJB4Y080355 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 18:19:11 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 18:19:11 +0400 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Nikola_Le=C4=8Di=C4=87?= To: In-Reply-To: <20120526090137.001691dc@scorpio> References: <20120526090137.001691dc@scorpio> Message-ID: X-Sender: nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.1 on FreeBSD Subject: Re: 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 14:41:23 -0000 On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:01:37 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2012 22:42:50 +1200 > Sam Lin articulated: > > The real irony here is that I have been playing around with "TeX Live" > on Windows for several years. I have serious doubts as to whether it > can ever be made to run as easily and be updated as effortlessly on > FreeBSD as it is on a Windows system. Considering how the ports system > works, I find it rather had to imagine that it would. I can compare > porting "TeX Live" to FreeBSD and hoping to make it work effortlessly > to attempting to write all major applications in pure assembly > language. I suppose with enough man hours invested it might be > possible, but why bother. I would seriously question the actual number > of users who both need "TeX Live" and are not able to use it on another > environment. There are so many other projects that FreeBSD could be > reasonably concentrating on that I find this one to be a priority at > best. This was already repeated many times on this mailing list, but I guess it won't hurt to remind that vanilla TeX Live works on FreeBSD (from 7.0 to 10-CURRENT) out of the box. It lives in /usr/local/texlive/, has its own nice text and gui package manager and doesn't mess with the rest of your system. Just download ISO and install it. -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~