Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:24:15 -0400 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, hrs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: install missing packages in tex-live Message-ID: <BLU436-SMTP2861FDD036F84CF98E55BE808A0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <86oait6wuv.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <BLU436-SMTP615783863E78F0BE0C63DB808B0@phx.gbl> <86oait6wuv.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:37:12 -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee stated: > Perhaps this is an unsatisfying answer, but since you clearly already > intend to circumvent your operating system's package manager and > packaging scheme, the solution would be to manually install > TeXLive. No doubt there's a debate to be had on the matter, but it seems > rather fruitless to me to try and convince the FreeBSD porters/packagers > to do extra work that makes their own efforts superfluous... That is not really an accurate statement. FreeBSD does not have a packaging solution for the hundreds of packages available for TeX Live. Now, TeX Live does have a completely functional solution that for some reason, I honestly do not know exactly why, does not work if TeX Live is installed via the ports system. Since it works if compiled from source, this has got to be a rather fundamental problem. The OS is giving me no choice but to circumvent it since I need packages not available in the standard TeX Live port as configured for FreeBSD. Worse, there does not appear to be any way to actually keep those packages updated. Presently, I have gone back to using MiKTeX with TexStudio on a Windows machine. That "just works". -- Carmel
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