Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 18:19:11 +0400 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Nikola_Le=C4=8Di=C4=87?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - is this going to happen or not? Message-ID: <ac8cb42c8cfedc59d2c7d6ccde74c476@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <20120526090137.001691dc@scorpio> References: <CACsYpVOz1tnWO5e4S_OOSDGa7Q8OkztJ6HagHy58FY0J5RNCqQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120526090137.001691dc@scorpio>
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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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