Mojca Miklavec wrote: [] > 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).
I guess if and when it will be done, this will be one of the routes to take. There is also debian who have texlive packages. But: - Having Fink texlive packages will not satisfy many users who want to keep their texlive from the texlive or mactex disk image and who want to use Fink only for installing extras like liliypond. I don't know if the macports tex packages allow this kind of thing. Making a system-texlive package that actually works for everybody is not easy. - A brief look at the macports texlive packages shows that even only adapting their stuff to Fink would be a monumental task (as was making the ports in the first place, I guess). For example, the package texlive_base has 53(!) patch files (taken from the OpenBSD port), among them things that modify the basic C and C++ code of some of the applications. Making sure that this works on 10.4 and 10.5 and on ppc and intel is a challenge. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
