On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:31, [email protected] wrote:
> Revision: 68483
> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/68483
> Author: [email protected]
> Date: 2010-06-04 08:31:28 -0700 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> updated LaTeXiT to v2.2.0, added dependency on pdftex, along with variant to
> specify external pdftex
> +variant mactex description "If your TeX distribution is MacTeX" {
> + depends_run-delete bin:pdftex:texlive
> +}
I thought the whole point of specifying the texlive dependency using the
bin:-style was so that an external binary such as one from MacTeX could satisfy
it. (I believe the user is assumed to have inserted the path to the MacTeX
programs into the binpath in macports.conf if they want to use MacTeX.) So I
don't think such a variant is necessary here. I've not seen such a variant in
other ports that use TeX.
I'm not a fan of this variant description either; it doesn't have the
imperative style we use in other variant descriptions. Think of it as a
checkbox in a GUI: you wouldn't write a checkbox label starting with "If". I
guess you just copied this from the auctex port but I don't like it there
either. "Use MacTeX instead of TeX Live" would be how I would describe the
variant, if indeed the variant is necessary.
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