Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:29:13 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New version of TeX? Message-ID: <51201649.5050204@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <CADLo8388%2B-47_nqrGWJs3ioGcwrjdKKE=N0-exuDWaZ-AFk2sA@mail.gmail.com> References: <510EDC14.3030107@freebsd.org> <1359939844.51356.YahooMailNeo@web162003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <510F5352.8000101@bsdforen.de> <51101544.3070809@passap.ru> <5111C78D.1080901@bsdforen.de> <51125F9D.3080705@freebsd.org> <CADLo8388%2B-47_nqrGWJs3ioGcwrjdKKE=N0-exuDWaZ-AFk2sA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 16/02/2013 18:31, Chris Rees wrote: > On 6 February 2013 13:50, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 02/05/13 21:01, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 04/02/2013 21:08, Boris Samorodov wrote: >>>> 04.02.2013 10:21, Dominic Fandrey пишет: >>>>> On 04/02/2013 02:04, Danilo Egea wrote: >>>>>> Well, there is this project http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ >>>>> >>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/171571 >>>> >>>> I use the patch from this PR together with the attached diff >>>> and portmaster seems to DTRT with dependencies. >>> >>> Seeing that someone else actually uses it, I just attached a little >>> update fixing a problem I discovered only a couple of days ago. I >>> recommend you to install texlive-base again. >>> >>> Also I think it would be nice if you attached your patches to the PR. >>> >>> Regards >>> >> >> Is there any chance this could be committed now pending a longer-term >> rearchitecture of the TeX stuff? I just installed it on three machines >> (thanks!) with no trouble at all and everything is working perfectly. >> Waiting for some long-term solution seems to be making the perfect the >> enemy of the good -- and this Friday will mark 8 years since the last >> teTeX update. > > I would very much like to put Dominic's version in (for no particular > reason other than simplicity, and it was the first I looked at-- I > can't see any major advantage of one over the other). It would be nice to have it, however it's not yet in a state to /replace/ teTeX. So far it's only an alternative. I'd still have to make a real conflicts test and take care of the most common teTeX depending ports in a way that doesn't cause the entire texlive-texmf to be pulled in as a dependency. I won't be able to work on this sooner than 1 month from now. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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