From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 31 11:21:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4583337B41B for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2VJKcM19011; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:20:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:20:38 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Geoffrey Mainland Cc: FreeBSD Ports List Subject: print/latex & print/tex dependencies considered harmful. Message-ID: <20020331192038.GA91320@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <200203300210.g2U2A4u96347@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020331190203.GA63295@apeiron.net> <20020331190846.GA68725@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020331190846.GA68725@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We've had several instances in the past couple of months of people accidentally (and without any warning) really screwing up their teTeX installations by installing once of the few ports that sucks in print/texinfo or print/latex, which depend on the equally obsolete port print/tex. It usually takes several days of email tag, chasing package denpendencies, to get their systems cleaned up so that they can use TeX for anything again. Every person I've helped with these issues has strongly requested that the print/latex and print/tex ports check for teTeX and abort installation if it is found. I'm finally going to get around to PR'ing that in the next couple of days, as "I installed , and now TeX doesn't work at all." is becoming a FAQ. As print/texinfo maintainer, I've PR'd its deletion. Ideally, print/{la,}tex should follow it into the darkness. Hope this clarifies the issues involved. Sorry that I wasn't crystal clear on it in the first place. -- AlanE "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - HST To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message