[ Polytropon wrote on Wed 10.Oct'12 at 17:49:25 +0200 ] > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:01:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > If you prefer, you can just use the download dvd or netinstall from the > > texlive website. They have provided binaries for FreeBSD. I installed > > the full TeX distribution myself just the other week on FreeBSD 9. So no > > need to use the ports system if you don't want. > > The only remaining problem will be dependencies within the > port management system, e. g. ports requiring a TeX distribution > which defaults to teTeX... > > By the way, would it be possible or desired to introduce a > setting to /etc/make.conf regarding _which_ TeX distribution > to use, e. g. WITH_TEX=texlive (will install TeXlive) or > WITH_TEX=teTeX (will install teTeX) if a dependency of TeX > is requested?
That's a very good point. I recall installing something from ports the other day that needed the binary mktexlsr, and I pointed it at my texlive installation by adding the $PATH to root's shell file, but it didn't work out. I had to let it install the tetex port for it to work. I don't mind having more than one TeX distribution on the system but tetex is just so outdated, it would be nice if ports could be set up in a way that they can use texlive if the user has it installed, either from the ports collection itself or from the main texlive site as I have. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
