On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, August 10, 2013 6:03 pm, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > > On 09/08/13 18:40, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> I've given up on all OS distribution-based TexLive drops. I install > >> texlive manually from their installer
Same here. I generally don't update TeX more than once a year, which works fine for me. > >> and then run tlmgr under > >> cron control nightly to keep it up-to-date. I do this on > >> FreeBSD (my primary dev and server platform) as well as all > >> linux instances in my environment. It makes things a lot simpler. > >> > > > > How do you manage dependency tracking errors? My solution to this problem was to maintain my own patches for ports that I used that relied on TeX. These patches would point to the relevant binaries without adding dependencies. I would apply these patches after running portsnap and before running portmaster. Luckily, TeXLive pretty much has everything TeX-related you'll ever need. And after switching from emacs to vim, I also don't need auctex anymore. Other ports have made TeX an optional dependency. Currently none of the ports that I use require TeX. > > The last time I've > > installed it the way you do was on Slackware and since it doesn't do any > > dependency tracking there were no problems (as long as the binaries were > > in PATH). I can imagine ports and pkg tools on FreeBSD complaining > > about missing TeX packages, and AFAIK Debian based Linux distributions > > will certainly complain (I think there is a workaround, but it involves > > messing with dpkg). > > I am also curious about this one. Any guideline or special considerations > regarding the use of the Tex Live distribution straight into FreeBSD would > be very helpful. Or is it just a matter of following this: > http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html Those instructions pretty much cover what you have to do. I add the path to the TeXLive binaries in /etc/login.conf instead of in one of the shell rc files. And since I like using TeX fonts, I added the directories for e.g. the tex-gyre fonts to the GS_FONTPATH environment variable, so that ghostscript can find them if necessary. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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