Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:31:45 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New version of TeX? Message-ID: <CADLo8388%2B-47_nqrGWJs3ioGcwrjdKKE=N0-exuDWaZ-AFk2sA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51125F9D.3080705@freebsd.org> References: <510EDC14.3030107@freebsd.org> <1359939844.51356.YahooMailNeo@web162003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <510F5352.8000101@bsdforen.de> <51101544.3070809@passap.ru> <5111C78D.1080901@bsdforen.de> <51125F9D.3080705@freebsd.org>
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On 6 February 2013 13:50, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 02/05/13 21:01, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 04/02/2013 21:08, Boris Samorodov wrote: >>> 04.02.2013 10:21, Dominic Fandrey =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >>>> On 04/02/2013 02:04, Danilo Egea wrote: >>>>> Well, there is this project http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ >>>> >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/171571 >>> >>> I use the patch from this PR together with the attached diff >>> and portmaster seems to DTRT with dependencies. >> >> Seeing that someone else actually uses it, I just attached a little >> update fixing a problem I discovered only a couple of days ago. I >> recommend you to install texlive-base again. >> >> Also I think it would be nice if you attached your patches to the PR. >> >> Regards >> > > Is there any chance this could be committed now pending a longer-term > rearchitecture of the TeX stuff? I just installed it on three machines > (thanks!) with no trouble at all and everything is working perfectly. > Waiting for some long-term solution seems to be making the perfect the > enemy of the good -- and this Friday will mark 8 years since the last > teTeX update. I would very much like to put Dominic's version in (for no particular reason other than simplicity, and it was the first I looked at-- I can't see any major advantage of one over the other). Hiroki-san, can we please move this forward? I'm happy to test and commit this one. If the worst comes to the worst, we could have alternative TeXLive ports accompanied by a USE_LATEX knob and bsd.latex.mk.... Chris
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