On 12/16/06, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/16/06, David R. Morrison wrote:
> >
> > If system-tetex and system-ghostscript are removed, it will simply mean that
> > fink users who wish to use one of the other TeX and ghostscript
> > installations for daily use will be forced to download and install a second
> > copy of TeX (namely fink's copy).
>
> Does that mean that I'll have to remove fink from path every time when
> I'll want to use TeX provided by the system?
>
> I wouldn't have any objections as long as someone could guarantee me
> that the TeX provided by fink would be based at least on TeXLive2006,
> would include XeTeX and the possibility to use the latest ConTeXt.
>
> I don't want fink's executables to have precedence over i-Installer's
> ones since fink's version will probably remain behind time. Most LaTeX
> users don't ever notice that, but ConTeXt users probably do.
>
> (I had to install "system-tetex" just because there was some strange
> dependency stating that gnuplot needed kpathsea headers, but outside
> of fink I managed to compile gnuplot without any problems.)
>
> Mojca
>


You can set your PATH such that your "system" TeX executables show up
earlier and are therefore what gets chosen at run time.

You had to install system-tetex because presumably gnuplot is
configured to look for kpathsea in a certain path--system-tetex puts
in symbolic links to make that work.
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)
Got job?  http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/akh_cv/

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