Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 23:33:18 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> Cc: FreeBSD FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, hrs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: install missing packages in tex-live Message-ID: <86pp39x7xt.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP2861FDD036F84CF98E55BE808A0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU436-SMTP615783863E78F0BE0C63DB808B0@phx.gbl> <86oait6wuv.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <BLU436-SMTP2861FDD036F84CF98E55BE808A0@phx.gbl>
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Carmel NY writes:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:37:12 -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee stated:
>
> Presently, I have gone back to using MiKTeX with TexStudio on a Windows
> machine. That "just works".
The official TeX Live installer for also "just works," installing
pre-compiled FreeBSD binaries to a self-contained location of your
choice. Been using it some time myself without a problem. There doesn't
seem to be much interest in maintaining a broad collection of TeX ports
in the FreeBSD ports tree. I can't say exactly why not, but if I had to
guess I'd say there may be two reasons:
1) The TeXLive packages already present in the ports tree are there
primarily because other ports depend on them
2) A perfectly good *official* way of installing, using and maintaining
TexLive has existed for a very long time, making a complete ports set
superfluous
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