I am a little late it would appear to enter into the discussion on fink's internal tex conflicting with external texs, but I thought I would offer an idea to potentially solve the problem. First, I think that everyone would agree that the (obsolete and discontinued) version of teTeX included with fink is a poor choice for people who use tex for writing. On the other hand, teaching fink above every version of TeX that people may use would seem to be a waste of energy as well. Proposal: if fink only needs a rudimentary TeX to typeset documentation, why not 1. require a fink version of tex that is always in the same place on all systems (e.g. binary compatibility) and 2. hide the installation of this tex by placing it off the user's path (e.g. place the tex binaries in a "standard" location within the fink /sw subtree that only fink knows about? I noted that it was also suggested to change the path order, but this is a questionable solution and would likely cause lots of problems down the road (a debugging nightmare). As the fink tex solution is really not useful outside of fink, why not try the solution above?
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