Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:19:13 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, Jamie Paul Griffin <jpg@gnix.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Message-ID: <20110715201913.GA12391@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <537F9F81-1353-4FA3-B8EF-EF99682F435E@gmail.com> <CAJ5UdcOncZNJ4Y-NsAfHK4FvK%2BRQUnUyD=9Ne6x_fbX2TomyJQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110714160816.GA30155@think.gnix.co.uk> <20110715080324.GA8392@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me. You > > > can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages: > > =20 > > I would second that. It comes comlete with FreeBSD binaries for i386 a= nd amd64 in the 2010 release and installing it is really easy. > >=20 >=20 > what about ia64, sparc64 and the rest? Those platforms are relatively rare. To the best of my knowledge, only a handful of people (myself included) have requested FreeBSD binaries. And if the TeXLive developers don't have access to the hardware in question... =20 > What exactly is missing from teTeX? > I use latex daily, and so far haven't > found a package which is not already > included as part of teTeX. Of course, > my usage is specific to what I need, > it's not exhaustive. teTeX is missing (among others) luaTeX, a recent conTeXt, pdfjam, Xe(La)TeX, bibtex8, amstex, latexdiff, metafun, pdfnup.=20 A unified diff between the texmf trees from teTeX to TeXLive is 54150 lines, of which 8445 are deletions and 42939 are additions. Also, from the teTeX homepage: I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project. So teTeX is effectively EOL. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4goMEACgkQEnfvsMMhpyX5OwCcDd6Op2nxjANsu9jm8/8G7Lga JXYAn01erZzDyt7tgv9khUVhKON9afbU =NYTT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--
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