Holger Schulz wrote: > Am 2008-04-29 um 00:21 schrieb Alexander Hansen: > > >> Holger Schulz wrote: >> >>> On my former machine I had gwTeX installed as aTex distribution. I >>> installed it again on my new iMac now using MacTeX. Is there, >>> meanwhile, any virtual package which amkes fink use this TeX >>> distribution? I don't like to install tetex. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> hs >>> >>> >> Assuming you're on 10.5, then no, there is not. >> The maintainer for our system-tetex placeholder package got tired of >> the upstream distributions (like gwTeX) randomly moving files around >> and therefore making the placeholder break--it's more than just >> being able to find the "tex" executable--which caused problems for >> users. His decision was therefore just to have packages install a >> Fink TeX distribution (tetex or ptex). >> > > Means I need a second TeX distribution for fink only? Since there are > to of them, which should I choose? How up-to-date are they? > > How can I prevent the fink TeX distribution to be invoked when I e.g. > type pdflatex in the console. /sw/bin is in pole position in the path. > Which is a good way to chance this? > tetex is probably as up-to-date as it's going to get, since it's no longer being maintained upstream. I'm not sure about ptex.
How to make sure your TeX distro's executables get used depends on where it puts them. You may be able to do this in your .profile (or whichever startup preference file you're using) like this example: . /sw/bin/init.sh export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH which assumes your TeX distro uses /usr/local/bin for its executables. If it puts them in /usr/bin, that's a bit more difficult. >> I'm trying to make a push to remove such a dependency from packages >> which don't need TeX to build and can be configured use a third- >> party TeX distribution at runtime. It puts more responsibility on >> the user, but since it appears that the current TeX distributions >> for OS X aren't going to be as easy for us to package, this may be a >> reasonable workaround. >> > > I'm not sure if I understand this. Does this mean there will be a > change which will cause that a lower number of packages will need a > TeX package? Should I wait? > > Thanks. > > hs > > It would be the case that fewer packages would need TeX, but I'm not sure how long it will be before I get time even to start this, much less implement it. Right now I'm looking at the packages that I maintain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
