On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > [] >> >> Is there some way to avoid installing tetex? Please, let me know the >> answer is yes? > > Not really. Unfortunately, Fink has not yet been able to muster the manpower > necessary to bring its tex packages up to date. Apart from some people > whining on the mailing lists and a couple of others showing noble > intentions, no one has really done anything about it in the past two years. > > Your best bet IMHO would currently be to try some do-it-yourself hacking, > namely modify the lilypond package so that it does not require those > dependencies, and then cross your fingers and hope that it builds and works > with the tex installation you happen to have. To do this, you would copy the > file lilypond.info (or lilypond-devel.info if you want the very latest > version; plus the corresponding *.patch file) from > /sw/fink/dists/[un]stable/main/finkinfo/text/ to > /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ and then edit it: > > - Change the Revision field to a higher revision, for example from 1005 to > 1005.0 > > - Change the BuildDepends and Depends fields and remove the references to > libkpathsea4, libkpathsea4-shlibs and tetex3-base. > > I am not betting that this will work, however.
Thanks a lot for the generally very helpful hint how to modify packages. It didn't complain about tetex, but it will now take a while to install all the dependencies :) :) :) >> PS: Are there any tendencies to keep fink's packages a bit more >> up-to-date > > This is the kind of question that doesn't win you any friends here. You > might ponder about why you haven't upgraded your system to Leopard yet, for > example. And what more up-to-date version of lilypond do you want, and which > version does macports have? Lilypond is OK. I would like to see texlive replacing tetex and/or improved system-tetex, and maybe some other packages (rails 2.1, tcl/tk 8.5 & ruby/tk with aqua bindings, ...). I know - the best way to have it is to make a package by myself, but I help where I know how to help and where I'm at least approximately good at. With fink & compiling in general I'm a bit lost. Maybe one could take a look at how ports have incorporated texlive, and follow their scheme (so that it does not need to be built entirely from scratch). Mojca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
