On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:49:08PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Perhaps we should have a generic "tex" metaport that could be satisfied > > by any TeX distribution? We have a teTeX port that could conceivably be > > used instead, although teTeX is now obsolete so anyone still using it > > is probably doing something wrong. > > A tex metaport might be an even better idea. We would then need to update all > TeX-using ports to use this metaport, but that's not a terribly big deal; > after all, we've already had to do it once when we switched from tetex to > texlive. The tex metaport could have variants for MacTeX and TeX Live and > intelligently select the default variant based on whether MacTeX is already > installed.
I think this is probably the way to go, so I'll put it on my queue to go along with the TeXLive update. It would also make things a lot easier if some new TeX distribution comes into the picture in the future, like when TeXLive replaced teTeX. > I've been hearing about teTeX's obsolescence for awhile; should it just be > removed? Probably -- it hasn't been updated since 2006 and I can't think of any reason someone would want to still be using it. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
