From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 31 00:25:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8689AFAC7 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carmel_ny@outlook.com) Received: from BLU004-OMC4S7.hotmail.com (blu004-omc4s7.hotmail.com [65.55.111.146]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0442E1D29; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:25:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carmel_ny@outlook.com) Received: from BLU436-SMTP28 ([65.55.111.136]) by BLU004-OMC4S7.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:24:17 -0700 X-TMN: [qpq3cSzsCRMQUxjL2CQhbFAJPUrIy+W8] X-Originating-Email: [carmel_ny@outlook.com] Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:24:15 -0400 From: Carmel NY To: FreeBSD FreeBSD , hrs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: install missing packages in tex-live In-Reply-To: <86oait6wuv.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <86oait6wuv.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Organization: seibercom NET X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.27; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jul 2015 00:24:17.0288 (UTC) FILETIME=[3C7F4080:01D0CB27] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:25:26 -0000 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