Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:38:47 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Geoffrey Mainland <mainland@apeiron.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: print/latex & print/tex dependencies considered harmful. Message-ID: <20020331193847.GA52753@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020331193231.GA63561@apeiron.net> References: <200203300210.g2U2A4u96347@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020331190203.GA63295@apeiron.net> <20020331190846.GA68725@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020331192038.GA91320@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20020331193231.GA63561@apeiron.net>
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:32:32AM -0800, Geoffrey Mainland wrote: >On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:20:38PM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote: >> 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. >I can see why the latex dependency on the tex port would be a problem >for someone who installs latex before installing teTeX, but you also >seem to indicate that it is a problem for someone who installs teTeX >first. How is this the case? I would think that installation from packages would do it. Usually, though, by the time somebody has written to ports@ with a report of breakage, they've gotton so desparate they've manually installed print/latex or print/tex (on top of print/teTeX) in the hopes of fixing their system, so getting a mental stackdump of what happened to cause the initial problem is usually not possible. -- 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
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